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This is not an isolated example. People, please. For open source code stick to english in the code. Otherwise, you needlessly exclude anyone who doesn't speak your particular language.
I was about to dive into the code thinking "this thing looks cool, maybe there's something to learn from it". This turned me away instantly.
I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
I also don't get the point.
On reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/23c7y0/why_is_golang...
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I use Sublime Text 3 + GOSublime on my Mac and it has been a nice experience for developing golang apps. But I can see the appeal of web based IDE when combined with tools like nitrous.io, where your development tools are all in the cloud and you don't have to setup everything local just to start coding.
How do you find debugging? Debugging was one of the primary reasons of moving away from Sublime3 for me, though I didn't try Sublime with Go.
From https://github.com/b3log/wide/blob/master/editor/editors.go : // 编辑器操作. (...) // TODO: 目前是调用 liteide_stub 工具来查找声明，后续需要重新实现 This is not an isolated example. People, please. For open source code stick to english in the code. Otherwise, you needlessly exclude anyone who doesn't speak your particular language. I was about to dive into the code thinking "this thing looks cool, maybe there's something to learn from it…
I've poked at C++ with Japanese comments once; I ended up just ignoring those comments completely and reading the code to figure out what was going on. I don't think those authors should have written the comments in a language they didn't seem to be comfortable in either; they probably never thought about who would look at their code.
It's open source; they don't owe it to you to make it easy to work with for you, and you don't owe them to work on it even if you are uncomfortable with the comment style.
A couple of comments: 1) There are a few comments the question the appeal of web based IDEs. My view is that this because IDEs are generally quite refined pieces of software: the people who use them are also authors, etc. It's hard for a new IDE of any type to compete with that at the start. HOWEVER, Web-based IDEs have some very attractive features. The ability to always have it available and customised to how you w…
2) i have a kickstarter coming in a few days =]
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I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
I use Sublime Text 3 + GOSublime on my Mac and it has been a nice experience for developing golang apps. But I can see the appeal of web based IDE when combined with tools like nitrous.io, where your development tools are all in the cloud and you don't have to setup everything local just to start coding.
Actually, if anyone else has any experience here I'd gratefully welcome it.
I don't want to sound arrogant, but can someone please try to explain to me what is the appeal of web-based IDEs for non-web development? The “feature” bullet points from their site do not really speak to me, and it overall still seems like a solution in search of a problem. I'd seriously like to hear some stories from people who use such solutions and environments. The only reason I can think of for the existence an…
One advantage would be that any improvements to the web IDE would directly benefit all its users. On the other hand, improvements you make to your personal local dev environment are local and not helpful to others. Consider the time it took you, when learning Go, to setup gofmt on save, then after some time you might discover goimports and start using that. A newbie coming into Go will not have the benefit of goimpor…
How do you have that in a Web IDE?
Specially taking into account all the use cases a programming language is used for.
From https://github.com/b3log/wide/blob/master/editor/editors.go : // 编辑器操作. (...) // TODO: 目前是调用 liteide_stub 工具来查找声明，后续需要重新实现 This is not an isolated example. People, please. For open source code stick to english in the code. Otherwise, you needlessly exclude anyone who doesn't speak your particular language. I was about to dive into the code thinking "this thing looks cool, maybe there's something to learn from it…
I'm no expert but that sample you gave me looks like Simplified Chinese, which should be readable by about 1.2 billion people[0]. There is no solid data on how widespread English is yet but I think if 1/6th of the earth speaks a language which is also an official language of the United Nations, programmers should be able to use it without criticism.
It might be an unpopular view on a site seemingly populated mostly by Americans but there's a big world out there and not everyone is at a comfortable level of English proficiency.
I know it's disappointing not to be able to contribute but I also think it's wrong to expect everyone who wants to build an open source project to restrict their communications and comments to English, especially when most of the world's population doesn't speak it.
Plus, 30% of developers are from the Asia/Pacific Region, comparable to developers in the Americas[1]. Familiarity with Chinese is going to be comparable to familiarity with English.
Just to add a little more, Go specifically may very well be more popular in China than it is in the English speaking countries[2].
[0] http://www.ethnologue.com/statistics/size [1] http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/european-technology/there-a... [2] http://herman.asia/why-is-go-popular-in-china