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

[Peter Haworth]

Well there's Mark Wieder's GLX2 editor plugin
  Mark?

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015, 4:27 PM Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
wrote:

> Trevor and Jerry worked on the Remo project, which was actually quite
> good. It ran as a separate application, but was able to access and save
> scripts. It also had a great application manager interface, quite superior
> to what we currently have.
>
> The "weakness" (if I can call it that) is that the debugger was not a step
> debugger. Instead you set breakpoints and at those points, Remo would save
> the current state of the variables at that break point. Jerry really liked
> this much better than a step debugger, but others liked the LC debugger
> method more. I was one of them, although I could see uses for both.
>
> So it's obviously possile to have an external application access the
> scripts in a stack. Why Remo went away I don't know, but I suspect changes
> in the engine were too much to keep up with. New commands and syntax would
> constantly have to be updated, and that is really the problematic thing
> about any external that does this sort of thing.
>
> You would need a debugger API of some sort, where you could pass commands
> and have some kind of response passed back. Not sure it's worth it. The
> wheel, whatever anyone's beef about it, is actually quite good already.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2015, at 16:10 , Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com
> <mailto:monte at sweattechnologies.com>> wrote:
>
>
> On 23 Oct 2015, at 8:36 am, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> <mailto: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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