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Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by jossclimb » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:10 AM UTC

> No language servers.

Why is that a good thing?

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by TurboHaskal » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:11 AM UTC

robertlagrant wrote: post #9

jmercouris wrote: post #4

I like that it is written C/C++. I remember Eclipse was written in Java, and I thought that was really cool. Java to edit Java.

Eclipse was less cool once you had to use it. Only IDE to have a restart option in the file menu, for when it got confused.

Thankfully we live in a world in which we constantly start new containers with every merge to master and the orchestrator will simply restart your container if it your application gets OOM killed, so Java is finally usable :)

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:13 AM UTC

So it is written in C or C++?

Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:13 AM UTC

msie wrote: post #6

Cool! Finally an IDE not based on electron or java! There has been another one but it was abandoned many years ago.

KDevelop, QTCreator, Visual Studio, XCode,...

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by mrweasel » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:21 AM UTC

With a name like CodePerfect95 I had hoped for a different UI design.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by maccard » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:27 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #13

So it is written in C or C++? Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java.

> Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java.

The GUI situation in go is poor, but other than that I would say go is an excellent tool to write the remainder of the IDE in.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by rizzaxc » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:28 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #13

So it is written in C or C++? Apparently Go isn't good enough to write an IDE, even that it lags behind Java.

It's not what the language is for. Go is really strong for greenfield server projects (and bad pretty much anywhere else)

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by keyle » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:36 AM UTC

jossclimb wrote: post #11

> No language servers. Why is that a good thing?

There is a lot of brouhaha about this. Two school of thoughts...

- LSP are a good idea but a terrible execution, YAGNI, etc.

- LSP are god send, burn my cpus I don't care

I'm being a little sarcastic but I think that's the gist of it. I'm neither pro or against LSPs. I use them when available.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by keyle » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:38 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #14

msie wrote: post #6

Cool! Finally an IDE not based on electron or java! There has been another one but it was abandoned many years ago.

KDevelop, QTCreator, Visual Studio, XCode,...

For Go though? I think you're down to Goland.

Re: Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go

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Post by keyle » Wed, Jul 05, 2023, 7:41 AM UTC

Thanks for doing this, that is a massive achievement.

My main nitpick is about picking up another IDE just for_ one_ language.

I dislike VSCode as much as the next guy, but having an IDE just for Go doesn't make much sense to me in 2023.

Most of us use far more than one language or stack every day, so there is enormous value proposition by supporting many languages, and even opening up possibilities with a plugin system. I hope you're considering those ideas. I guess you might since it's called CodePerfect and not GoSomething :)

I think your pricing is on point though.