Fan is very interesting, is there an IDE or editor I can use with it?
(I like IntelliJ for Java)
Thanks, Philip
brianFri 24 Oct 2008
Hi Philip,
As you might expect from a brand new language, IDE support is a bit lacking.
Fan comes bundles with a simple IDE called Flux. I've actually been using Flux as my primary editor for the past month. But it is really rough around the edges, so you might find it rather frustrating until we put some more time into polishing it up.
You can also take a look under adm/tools for support files for various editors. What has been submitted so far is TextPad (which Andy and I used before Flux), vim, and jedit. No one has created a plugin for IntelliJ yet (but if you do please let me know so I can add to the distro).
Also see Una which looks to have pretty nice support for Fan (and some cool collaboration features).
The state of things today is pretty much syntax color coding and basic compiling. There are no code completion or refactoring tools yet - but hopefully we'll see that soon. Building that stuff for Fan shouldn't be any harder than it is for Java given the simplicity of our language and type system.
philip142au Fri 24 Oct 2008
Hi,
Fan is very interesting, is there an IDE or editor I can use with it?
(I like IntelliJ for Java)
Thanks, Philip
brian Fri 24 Oct 2008
Hi Philip,
As you might expect from a brand new language, IDE support is a bit lacking.
Fan comes bundles with a simple IDE called Flux. I've actually been using Flux as my primary editor for the past month. But it is really rough around the edges, so you might find it rather frustrating until we put some more time into polishing it up.
You can also take a look under adm/tools for support files for various editors. What has been submitted so far is TextPad (which Andy and I used before Flux), vim, and jedit. No one has created a plugin for IntelliJ yet (but if you do please let me know so I can add to the distro).
Also see Una which looks to have pretty nice support for Fan (and some cool collaboration features).
The state of things today is pretty much syntax color coding and basic compiling. There are no code completion or refactoring tools yet - but hopefully we'll see that soon. Building that stuff for Fan shouldn't be any harder than it is for Java given the simplicity of our language and type system.