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0 pointsgmueckl1y ago0 comments

I only used that feature inadvertently a long, long time ago. As I remember, the program would throw a Throwable exception when it would enter code that wasn't translatable. There was some sort of hot reloading, too. So you could try to fix the code and continue.

The really neat thing was that the Ecliose Java compiler is built specifically to support the IDE, so all the the warning and error annotations in the editor come from the actual compiler even while you are typing. There is no separate parser and linter just for the editor. I believe that the ability to translate broken source files on a best effort basis is actually an offshoot from that functionality.

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veqq1y ago

Common Lisp's REPL works like this.

ryukoposting1y ago

That sounds like an incredibly useful feature. Do you recall what version you were using?

gmuecklOP1y ago

I believe that Eclipse 2.x already had most of these features, but it certainly was in almost all 3.x versions as far as I remember. That IDE was amazingly far ahead of its time. Even 20 years later, tools like VS Code feel like a shocking regression in capabilities to me.

jakewins1y ago

Well, regression in that feature set, but it’s better in other features, many of which drove people off of Eclipse.

When it worked, it was really, really good, agree. My experience was that it usually didn’t though, swap branches a few times and the caches would be broken, time for “invalidate caches and restart”. Multiple times per week, each time it’d take an hour to re-index.. that was a lot of time we got back again when we switched to IntelliJ

ryukoposting1y ago

This sounds like the sort of feature that will show up in a "vintage software" youtube video essay in a few years. I kinda want to go find it and give it a whirl.

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0 pointsgmueckl1y ago0 comments

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veqq1y ago

Common Lisp's REPL works like this.

ryukoposting1y ago

That sounds like an incredibly useful feature. Do you recall what version you were using?

gmuecklOP1y ago

jakewins1y ago

Well, regression in that feature set, but it’s better in other features, many of which drove people off of Eclipse.

ryukoposting1y ago

This sounds like the sort of feature that will show up in a "vintage software" youtube video essay in a few years. I kinda want to go find it and give it a whirl.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse