Re: RE : Re: What is the Development Environment of Choice for Kawa?

[Rafik Naccache [TNTeam] <rafik@tnteam.rocks>]

Actually, scheme's kinda most accomplished tooling on emacs is Geiser : 
http://www.nongnu.org/geiser/

I shall maybe hack on it drawing inspiration from what has been 
implemented for guile, chicken and racket...



Le 18/02/2016 21:18, Per Bothner a écrit :
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> On 02/18/2016 11:38 AM, Rafik Naccache  (TNTeam Rocks!) wrote:
>> Actually I managed to use swank/sLime with Kawa. But half of its 
>> functionality is broken.
>
> I'm afraid Swank/Slime with Kawa isn't actively maintained.
> Helmut Eller wrote/maintained it, but he is no longer involved.
> I don't know the details - it maybe that the Swank model isn't
> a great match for Kawa's more static binding mode - or for the JVM.
>
> OTOH if you have experience with and were productive with Swank/Clojure,
> perhaps we can get Swank/Kawa working, possibly by studying how 
> Clojure does things.
>
>> I am an emacs guy so this probably helps me, especially as I use 
>> smartparens  (a new paredit) ans rainbow delimiters.
>>
>> Maybe I shall write a Kawa.el mode on emacs  Like cider fir clojure, 
>> in which case I 'll need some hints on how completion works, etc...
>>
>> @ Per, When do you plan to release the code hot loading fixes in SVN?
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> I don't have anything usable at this point, and I'm back-logged on other
> projects (DomTerm; Kawa arrays; Kawa new invocation model with 
> patterns; more)
> that I don't know when I'll be able to spend time on it.  It's moderately
> high priority, but so is finishing up various half-finished projects!
>
> Until then, you can try the --no-inline flag, and be prepared to re-load
> everything after changes.  One of the big advantages of Kawa that its
> fast compiler and loading makes re-starting ok.

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