AMamichail·Jan 24, 2016Submission
Ask HN: Why not programming language annotations to induce editor/IDE features?
Why don't programming languages contain standardized editor/IDE annotations to induce more sophisticated editor/IDE support (e.g., optional WYSIWYG table entry for tabular static data, etc.)?
For example:
let table:[[Int]] /{ tabular, 10x10, centered } = ...
Editors/IDEs supporting this annotation would give you a WYSIWYG table for entering and showing static data for this table.
Another example: induce editor/IDE visualization via unicode
enum Suit { case Heart/{unicode char}, Diamond/{unicode char}, Spade/︎{unicode char}, Club/︎{unicode char} }
let x = Suit.Heart
In an IDE/editor that supports visualization annotations, the following would be shown:
enum Suit { case Heart/{unicode char}, Diamond/{unicode char}, Spade/︎{unicode char}, Club/︎{unicode char} }
let x = Suit.{unicode char}
A linear algebra library might come with unicode visu
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alizations to make code that uses it much nicer to look at.
Yet another example would be to induce tool support for "commit comments":
https://github.com/thebearjew/commit-comments