[ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Thu Oct 22 19:10:56 EDT 2015


> On 23 Oct 2015, at 8:36 am, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> My question wasn't about ROI, but where I was going with that is less interesting than your reply, which raises a question of its own:
> 
> Given that PHP, Python, Lua, Ruby, and most other scripting languages deliver a great engine with no IDE at all, why don't we leverage the community's and the team's interest in using external editors and just either bundle one with LC and/or let people use their own?

Would moving the script editor to a separate process solve any problems we know about? Why not just continue with a built in editor and some IDE APIs that we can use to implement external editor plugins?


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