Tips for adding a couple features?

[FlogramMatt]

First of all.. Wow, I am extremely impressed by zep!

I would like to build a simple IDE on top of this, could you help point me in the right direction for getting started and tell me where in code to look?

A few small features I'd like to add. I would be willing to donate to a patreon or work out an equity deal if you'd be interested in discussing.. I'm creating a new programming language: high productivity(3x to 4x less time to write a program than average programming language), high performance(2x to 3x better than C++), high security(memory and thread safe)). Happy to discuss details if interested.

I'd like to add a visual debugger that supports normal step through debugging but backwards too.

Also, would like to show extra lines that containing debugging info above function calls too.

Finally would like custom multiple line comments.

And not essential anytime soon but auto complete and ability to browse a folder would eventually be very nice. Lots of things I could do with this eventually. Love it.

[cmaughan]

Hi,
Thanks for the message, glad you like it.
As you've no doubt discovered, Zep is a work in progress but intended to be flexible enough for your use case. I built it as part of a long term live coding project, so it is intended to have some of the features you describe; though they are not all finished or are works in progress!

I may add a patreon at some point, but I haven't decided on that one.

I'd like to add a visual debugger that supports normal step through debugging but backwards too.

You could start with the Line Markers support; I think the demo video shows that, I will check. You can add markers to code in various ways; there is also a margin marker. It wouldn't be hard to tweak this for showing the current line.

Also, would like to show extra lines that containing debugging info above function calls too.

There is a line gap feature which enables you to make space for things above/below the line; it is intended for widgets, but could be used for text too. It is a new/unfinished feature which I will get back to in my next phase of development.

Finally would like custom multiple line comments.

The syntax code is pretty simple (perhaps too simple!). You can modify the scanner in there to find your multiline comments. In future the syntax highlighting should be on a thread, but that is disabled for now due to a bug.

Auto complete is another feature I'd like to have. I don't think that is a hard thing - just a pop-up widget with a complete list and a way to select something.

[FlogramMatt]

Thank you Chris.

I decided to take a step back and focus on the compiler first, without worrying about the front end. After all, what good is a programming language if you can't compile it? Seems most important as a first step.

I'll definitely be back though. Planning to use this over vscode for the next step

Long run something like this probably this one, is definitely needed. I love ImGUI. Small chance I'll write my own IDE using my own programming language and an ImGui style library because it'd be cool to show what my language is capable of.

Giving you some feedback, couple of things I'd need for this to be usable:

• Easy way to do the syntax highlighting, looks like you've got it. But would like it, like Visual Studio Code, to automatically detect it's Flogram code (a .flo file) as opposed to another language and use that syntax highlighter. Curious what you mean by too simple.. are there use cases that are not supported or bad performance or something?
• A easy way for users, no matter what platform, to download, install and run this without building from source. Was a little tricky and buggy on Windows.

Thanks again Chris.

P.S. As stated, the new programming language is designed for high productivity, high performance, and high security. If you or anyone else has any interest in helping out, I'd love the help. I'd be happy to discuss a little.