Re: [ANN] Lua Development Tools available at Eclipse.org

[Stefan Reich <stefan.reich.maker.of.eye@...>]

Hi Benjamin.

That sounds pretty awesome! Nice website.

I'm still dreaming of a Lua IDE that is smart enough to see what types
my variables have and what methods the objects support. If the code is
not extremely tricky - it should actually be possible.

Now THIS would bring Lua in a league with the compiler languages.

Stefan

PS: I'm just installing Eclipse which according to apt-get is almost
infinitely large (310MB!!).


On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Benjamin Cabé <bcabe@sierrawireless.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The Eclipse Koneki development team is pleased to announce the
> availability of its Lua Development Tools, that can be installed via the
> Koneki update site (see explanations at the bottom of this message).
> Not only Lua Development Tools is providing you with the features you
> would expect from any IDE (syntax highlighting, code folding, ...), but a
> really nice addition is that we include a real Lua debugger, well
> integrated in the IDE (thanks to Eclipse DLTK, actually).
> We are relying on Metalua for source code analysis ; and thanks to JNLua,
> the tooling is cross-platform! :-)
>
> Available features:
> * Syntax coloring
> * Error markers
> * Outline
> * Code folding
> * Code templates
> * Occurrence highlighting
> * *Debugger*
>
> Features to be implemented soon:
> * LuaDoc support
> * Custom interpreter definition
>
> To give Lua Development Tools a try, it is super easy: just add the Koneki
> update site [1] to your Eclipse 3.6+ installation (Help > Install New
> Software...), and install "Lua Development Tools (Incubator)".
>
> Please visit http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt
> <http://eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/> to learn more about the project, watch a
> quick screencast, access the documentation regarding the debugger, etc.
> Bugs or feature requests should be filed in our Bugzilla [2].
>
> FYI, Koneki is an Eclipse project aiming at providing Machine-to-Machine
> developers with tools to help them in their day-to-day job. Lua being a
> language very well-suited for embedded targets, Koneki initial focus has
> been set on establishing a good development environment for it.
> In the next future, Koneki aims (along with other Eclipse initiatives) at
> using a common abstraction of what an M2M solution is, to deliver even
> more development tools: simulators, communication simulators, code
> generators,...
>
>
> Looking forward to getting your feedback!
> Cheers,
> Benjamin.
>
> [1] http://download.eclipse.org/koneki/updates-nightly
> [2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Koneki
>
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