Daily Thought - 2024-09-14
Hey, I'm Hanno! These are my daily thoughts on Crosscut, the programming language I'm creating. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, please get in touch!
This thought was published before Crosscut was called Crosscut! If it refers to "Caterpillar", that is the old name, just so you know.
I think eventually, I want to build a custom editor for Caterpillar. Maybe that's stupid and unrealistic. Even if I build one, it might just be an intermediate step towards full-featured support in existing IDEs.
But Caterpillar is definitely not a traditional language. And I want to go quite far with what the tooling provides to the developer. I think extending an existing IDE would be quite the pain. And especially while we still figure out what the tooling needs to be like, a custom editor might be a better vehicle for experimentation.
We'll see. For now, we have the debugger. The code it displays is already based on an intermediate representation from the compiler, which I've designed with a code database in mind. That's the starting point. Maybe it will be quite natural to slowly extend that with editing capability here or there, until it can take over as a primary driver during development.
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