Oh one more feature I forgot: * a file-tree browser (like ST2's)
-Steven On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Steven Degutis <sbdegu...@gmail.com>wrote: > I would be willing to pay /really/ good money for an editor that has a few > features: > > * paredit or better > * proper syntax highlighting of clojure (emacs rocks at this, ST2 sucks at > it) > * ST2-quality fuzzy matching at every completionable prompt (emacs's > ido-mode is alright but ST2's is way better) > * keyboard shortcuts that dont kill my wrists/pinkies/fingers > * jump-to-symbol-definition > * jump-to-file > * tabs (a la macvim) > * splits (a la emacs) > * magit or better (might be willing to ignore this omission though) > * not-super-bloated UI > * themeable (dont care if it has a good theme, i can make one if need be, > i just need it to be themeable) > * something like nrepl.el > > (where ST2 means Sublime Text 2) > > That's *all* I care about, nothing else matters to me. But no editor can > get *all* these things right. > > -Steven > > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Colin Fleming < > colin.mailingl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I was planning to wait a little longer before going public, but since >> it's pretty relevant to the other IntelliJ thread going on at the moment I >> thought I'd jump in. For the last couple of months of happy unemployment >> I've been working on a fork of La Clojure which is now about 70% migrated >> to Clojure and significantly improved. It's a lot of work to develop a tool >> like this, and one of the options I'm considering is starting a company to >> develop it as a commercial product - JetBrains have never maintained >> development of La Clojure very actively. I've been doing a little market >> research but there's really not much data around about whether there are >> enough people working with Clojure to sustain a product like that, and also >> the community is currently very focused on open source. >> >> One problem is that the IDE space is already fairly fractured - there's >> Emacs and CCW, Clooj, Sublime Text and the promise of Light Table at some >> point, and of course the current public version of La Clojure. But there's >> still not a great option for something that's powerful but easy to use - >> CCW is probably the closest thing to this right now. However I think it's >> telling that a large fraction of people in the State of Clojure 2012 survey >> still identified development tools as a major pain point. >> >> I think that the IntelliJ platform is a fantastic base to build something >> like this on. Clojure as a language makes it pretty challenging to develop >> a lot of the great functionality that JetBrains are famous for, but I think >> there's scope to do a lot of great things. Certainly for mixed Clojure/Java >> projects it would be difficult to beat, but even for Clojure only projects >> I can imagine a lot of fantastic functionality built on their >> infrastructure. My plan would be to release a standalone IDE and a plugin >> for people using IntelliJ Ultimate for web dev, Ruby/Python or whatever. >> Since it's mostly Clojure now (and I'm migrating what's left as I get to >> it) there's a real possibility of a Clojure plugin/extension API. I >> envision charging PyCharm/RubyMine type prices, say $200 for company >> licenses or $100 for individual developers. >> >> So, I'd love to hear what people think. I'd appreciate it if we could >> stay away from the politics of open source vs proprietary - several people >> have told me privately that they'd rather use OSS and that's fine, >> proprietary isn't for everyone. What I'd like to know is if the idea is >> appealing to many people here? >> >> In case it's a concern for anyone, I've discussed this with JetBrains. >> >> Thanks for any feedback, >> >> Cheers, >> Colin >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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