Cobra Forums

Charles wrote:Someday we have to replace Trac with "CobraTrac". It's the resource hog around here.

Or just get rid of Trac and move code/tracker to some public hosting. Then, at least, complaints won't be against you.

What about serious IDE support? I think that Cobra is behind on that part, which to me, is a very important point.
And by IDE I'm not talking about syntax color highlight only, but a real intellisense, project templates (win forms, WPF, MVC, etc.), refactor and so on.
The newest languages on the JVM are IDE enabled since day 1, such as: Ceylon (Eclipse), Kotlin (IntellijIDEA), Xtend (Eclipse), Scala (Eclipse), Gosu (IntellijIDEA), Fantom (Eclipse), Groovy (Eclipse), Golo (NetBeans) even Jython (Eclipse)

On the .NET side, most important/active ones are on Visual Studio (C#, VB.NET, F#, C++CLI, Phalanger, Oxygene, Nemerle, IronPython)
There is a VS addin for Cobra but last update was 8 months ago.

Developers that are familiar with those IDEs will quickly get into Cobra if it is well integrated on it, hence it will be easier to promote it

carlosqt wrote:What about serious IDE support? I think that Cobra is behind on that part...

I agree. We're getting there, albeit slowly. I recently added the beginnings of support for autocompletion to the MonoDevelop/Xamarin Studio IDE plugin but there is a lot of room for improvement yet. I would accept any help with the MD/XS addin and would love to see parallel efforts with other IDEs like Visual Studio.

carlosqt wrote:What about serious IDE support? I think that Cobra is behind on that part, which to me, is a very important point.

I agree as well, but we need more volunteers than just nerdzero who has been doing a great job with MonoDevelop/XamarinStudio.

I've been playing a supporting role on that with:
-- testing and feedback
-- Q & A on using the Cobra parser and AST nodes
-- enhancements and tweaks to Cobra that help the IDE support

It's high on my list to make a further enhancement to the parser that will enable autocompletion in more places.

We need more volunteers to help with IDE support.

Charles wrote:It's high on my list to make a further enhancement to the parser that will enable autocompletion in more places.

We need more volunteers to help with IDE support.

Based on my very limited experience, MD/XD support for Cobra looks promising, but it looks it requires knowledge of C# to help?

Why did you get that impression? The code is all Cobra:
https://github.com/ramon-rocha/MonoDevelop.CobraBinding

Charles wrote:Why did you get that impression? The code is all Cobra:
https://github.com/ramon-rocha/MonoDevelop.CobraBinding

Almost all Cobra. The front-end of the GUI portion (the compiler options) is done in C# to make use of Stetic, the form designer. C# is the only language supported by Stetic.

https://github.com/ramon-rocha/MonoDeve ... lWidget.cs

But, the GUI back-end, the code connected to the various widget events, is Cobra.

https://github.com/ramon-rocha/MonoDeve ... anel.cobra

But yes, all the rest of the code is Cobra.

Charles wrote:Why did you get that impression? The code is all Cobra:
https://github.com/ramon-rocha/MonoDevelop.CobraBinding

Heh, I've checked thisone - all C#.

nerdzero wrote:But, the GUI back-end, the code connected to the various widget events, is Cobra.
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But yes, all the rest of the code is Cobra.

Thank you. Now I see...