![]() ![]() What Elm IDE Plugins use for type suggestions right now? Please consider that before reading further. ![]() If that will happen soon, this story has completely no practical point, and rather could be an interesting, but pointless stack of information. Also, elmi file format could change in any way Evan wants. I really have considered this twist of faith, and I think this could lead to a better Elm-IDE world without binary parsing and that’s what we all actually need. So it is important to notice, that things could change drastically in Elm 0.19 or a bit later and may be at some recent point we’ll have the types with a call to compiler in some way, or have a MS Language Protocol implemented. The discussion on pairing Elm with MS Language Server The discussion on the ways to organise the binary files Evan tells he is working on providing types, probably using elmi files (these experiments were abandoned later) Some links to Google Groups discussions, to provide you with the progress of getting types from outside with the language itself or its utilities: That’s one of the reasons why I write this article. Though anyway, that would be cool to have it everywhere. And especially, due to my current occupation (JetBrains, in case you wondered) it seems better to use this skills/code to improve IDEA plugin instead :). Unfortunately, for the moment the integration of a working type-detection into the plugin itself is in a frozen state due to different reasons. He completely agreed that would help, so I rushed into binary investigation and Mukesh helped me a lot in my findings. ![]() elmi actually started from the moment when I connected with Mukesh (he had the plugin working already) and decided to try to implement things by detecting the types. Some may be satisfied with Lighttable way of determining the type - selecting the expression and pressing a special key to get the value and type from the execution in background REPL process.Įlm-Instant plugin for Atom by Mukesh Soniīut user needs to wrap blocks of code in a special form and to write things-to-try in a Playground panel, unlike Sandboxes which provide programmer with the view and control over the actual code being developed. Why ruin the tradition then?) Every conclusion below is a subjects to discussion, since what’s happening here is just an investigation driven by a single human mind, usually tending to be so offensively wrong, that only dozens of years prove how was it surprisingly right from the very beginning Why getting types in Elm is important at all? So, if you are not interested in Elm or writing plugins for IDEs or parsing binary files, the article could not be interesting for you… Or actually it could?ĭisclaimer: (I always have disclaimers in my posts. But the detailed types information is needed to implement helpful things in editors-nice type hints, nice auto-completion etc.Įlm Language REPL (every pun intended… or not)Īlso, this post shamelessly promotes the node.js library named node-elm-repl, to those who develop Elm plugins for IDEs, but only for those who do not disdain running node.js processes inside their target IDE. By itself, having no reflection is rather a good thing, usually it complicates the language syntax and/or libraries a lot. Kind of a problem for the developers of these plugins, is the fact that for the moment Elm has no reflection (a way to get a type of an entity) and tends not to have it at all. Every such plugin is usually written by the new-language community rather than developers of this particular editor / IDE. And, as it happens with every new language, step-by-step, it gets its plugins developed for every modern code editor / IDE. Which could be a new nice replacement for JavaScript. A quintessence of this post (not to say TL DR): Especially, considering the fact it gets more popular and fancy every day. So here’s a new try to get back to you with writing nerdy texts. Seems I haven’t posted anything for a while, since Sep 2014 to be precise-even though I had nice topics to discuss.
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