Thanks for the great feedback, Shawn. On Sep 23, 3:09 pm, Shawn Hoover <shawn.hoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Will Kennedy <parset...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some background: I've been spending some of my free time providing by > > basic Clojure support in VS 2010. To be honest, I'm a bit of a Clojure > > newbie, so I figured something that would require me to build a lexer > > and parser for the language and delve into the clojure source would be > > a great way to learn while creating something other people might find > > valuable. For adoption, having first-class support in VS for clojure- > > clr would be huge. > > > I've built syntax highlighting, brace matching, and some basic > > formatting helpers. I'm working on the REPL window and project/build > > system next. My hope is to get it to the point where a user can > > download the plugin, create a new project, get some basic boilerplate, > > build, execute and debug all from within Visual Studio. People who are > > using emacs won't be abandoning it, but I hope it'll help people with > > a .Net background get going quickly. > > > I'm looking for input about what features I should focus on and just > > general comments on the worthiness of the project. I figure I'm bound > > to make mistakes by approaching this from a C/C++/C# programmer's > > perspective, and this might preclude that. > > > Thanks. > > Hi Will, > > This is absolutely worthy. It's VS or die in the .NET world. Syntax > highlighting, indentation, the REPL (including sending expressions from the > editor), and the project system are most important. After that, I think some > combination of integrating the editor with the REPL's doc function, .NET > intellisense, and Clojure intellisense. There's some effort going on to > potentially unify the REPL servers used by the IDEs, so keep an eye on that, > as well. > > Shawn
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