Re: [Caml-list] What does Jane Street use/want for an IDE? What about you?

[Peng Zang <peng.zang@gmail.com>]

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On Tuesday 21 October 2008 03:31:26 pm Till Varoquaux wrote:
> There is a mix of Emacs,vim,texmate and other esoteric editors being
> used here. We are all free to choose what we use but I think a lot of
> us decide to cope with a steeper learning curve in order to gain more
> flexibility (there's a big difference between hacking as your day job
> and coding for a one term class). Dethroning emacs (or vim or ....)
> might therefor be a bit of a challenge. That being said a fair amount
> of advanced IDE features can be oloaded to external tools (in the
> spirit of ocamlwizard). I would really love to see a user friendly IDE
> interfacing with such a tool (with the heavy lifting done in an
> external tool so that other editors could also benefit cheaply from
> advanced features like refactoring).
>
> We tend to work with really large code bases and cannot allow editors
> we use to dictate the way we build and/or structure our tree. This
> means that emacs/vim are currently closer to our needs than
> eclipse/visual studio. This, however, might be very different for

I agree.  There are many different use cases, different types of developers 
with different goals and styles.  Putting most of the heavy lifting into 
external tools so that can be integrated into any editor would be a great 
boon across the board.

Actually, how did ocamlwizard go?  I seemed to have missed the OSC results.  
The proposal looked promising..

Peng
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