Smalltalk and JetBrains Intellij (opens in new tab)

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17 pointsjamesladd14y ago7 comments

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jhancock14y ago· 2 in thread

ok, I upvoted this simply because it had Smalltalk in the title. However, I have to chastise the author for not really saying much except he wants people to throw their vote into some support with zero detail on why IntelliJ makes any sense as a Smalltalk IDE. IDE, in the traditional Smalltalk sense, doesn't have the same meaning as it does for IntelliJ's other languages.

spooneybarger14y ago

We're working on an implementation of smalltalk that runs on the jvm and integrates into ecosystem. That context was assumed to be previous knowledge but I can see how it might not be.

I just updated the post before I head out to work with more background. Can you let me know if you think it addresses your general concerns?

jhancock14y ago

Don't see your update yet. But telling me that redline is running on JVM bytecode, is on its own, only mildly interesting. What evidence/argument do you have that Smalltalk without a traditional Smalltalk dev environment is any more interesting than a scripting language like Ruby?

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projectileboy14y ago

Why not write your own language plugin, and then let JetBrains take it over? That's what me and another group did for Clojure. The language plugin API for IntelliJ is very nice. It's not documented very well, but it's easy to get help from the IntelliJ language plugin community.

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