So I've been using emacs as long as I've been programming (about 6 years) but I don't understand what you get out of using Emacs for Swift over xcode. The "I" in "IDE" for xcode is extremely strong. Seems like you're giving up a lot of tooling for.. what?
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#12So I've been using emacs as long as I've been programming (about 6 years) but I don't understand what you get out of using Emacs for Swift over xcode. The "I" in "IDE" for xcode is extremely strong. Seems like you're giving up a lot of tooling for.. what?
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#13This is fantastic. Please keep hacking on it. Please make it work with op source swift.
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#14So I've been using emacs as long as I've been programming (about 6 years) but I don't understand what you get out of using Emacs for Swift over xcode. The "I" in "IDE" for xcode is extremely strong. Seems like you're giving up a lot of tooling for.. what?
Well not for completion anymore :-)
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#15So I've been using emacs as long as I've been programming (about 6 years) but I don't understand what you get out of using Emacs for Swift over xcode. The "I" in "IDE" for xcode is extremely strong. Seems like you're giving up a lot of tooling for.. what?
For linux.
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#16So I've been using emacs as long as I've been programming (about 6 years) but I don't understand what you get out of using Emacs for Swift over xcode. The "I" in "IDE" for xcode is extremely strong. Seems like you're giving up a lot of tooling for.. what?
Really great text editing support via Evil mode.
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#17So I've been using emacs as long as I've been programming (about 6 years) but I don't understand what you get out of using Emacs for Swift over xcode. The "I" in "IDE" for xcode is extremely strong. Seems like you're giving up a lot of tooling for.. what?
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#18Here is an interesting talk on reverse engineering something very similar: https://realm.io/news/jp-simard-reverse-engineering-code-com...
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#19Here is an interesting talk on reverse engineering something very similar: https://realm.io/news/jp-simard-reverse-engineering-code-com...
Yup! This is exactly what powers company-sourcekit so huge props to jpsim for making this possible