How We Built Comma, the Raku IDE, on the IntelliJ Platform

This webinar tells the story of how Edument build an IDE for the Raku language using the IntelliJ Platform.

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Building an IDE from scratch would have been prohibitively expensive. By contrast, building on the IntelliJ Platform meant starting from a mature base, getting a great deal of generic IDE functionality for free, and therefore being able to focus on the parts of the experience specific to the Raku language.

 

The webinar covers:

• How the IntelliJ Platform models code through the Program Structure Interface

• An overview of the things that need to be built to provide support for a new language on the IntelliJ platform

• How to go from a language support plugin to an IDE

• Some things the Comma team wish they'd known sooner (or, how to make different mistakes!)