teacup50

Cognitive load of paging.

This is not a new and unexplored concept.

> Even Hacker News I have permanently zoomed to 125% and sometimes find it to be too small.

This is an issue of eyesight, a ridiculously high DPI without corresponding scaling, or both.

> So what? Is scrolling really that big of a deal?

Yes.

To implement a proper IDE, you're going to have to "duplicate" that logic anyway.

> I mean, if you want to build a universal system, leaving out vim and emacs is just shooting yourself in the foot.

Said no IDE user, ever.

> Are there any plugins which are binary compatible between more than one IDE? That seems hard.

No. And who cares?

> I still think the latter is bonkers for several reasons (SIGABRT being one)...

The fact that we're typing this, and it works -- without the entire world falling apart because of crashes in complex library code -- demonstrates why this is not remotely bonkers.

While I do love vim, its own high level of internal implementation brokenness doesn't really have much bearing on how one implements this sort of thing in a real multi-language IDE.

And as for your question, the answer is ... yes. Sure. Why not? That's what we already do in nearly all IDEs.

That would be an API; JSON IPC is used because of the difficulty in hoisting language-native AST/indexing APIs into JavaScript.

Libraries solve the problem of said middle end in a compiler, and in an IDE.

If you insist on using IPC, then you've incurred a great deal of friction in a place that it matters.

If you insist on using JSON IPC, then you've incurred a great deal of overhead in a place that it matters.

No, it's merely a work-around for two very distinct and self-inflicted problems:

- The pain of exposing language-native compiler/language AST and indexing APIs to a JavaScript IDE.

- RMS' inability to accept that GCC might need to expose an AST to external consumers, and his paranoia regarding how that might undermine his GPL-everywhere ideals.

Using JSON for local IPC -- and requiring IDE language support to funnel itself across that high-overhead IPC connection -- is fey.

Those would be symptoms.

These are merely "lived experiences" as related by a self-selected group under the banner of a very specific ideology.

> That's definitely not always true and probably not in the majority case either.

I don't know what you're talking about; it's an inherently political position rooted in coherent ideology.

When all else fails, deflect.

Does Rust also have polls to determine the number of contributors who are Christian, and an outreach program to increase those numbers?

You're being remarkably disingenuous; please consider your comments an example of deleterious politics.

That's not an answer.