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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by lmm on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:51PM (#11963008)
A build definition format that allows arbitrary code anywhere is always going to have less-good IDE support than one based on declarative documents.
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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by kmiroslav on Thursday June 23, 2016 @02:21PM (#11963233)
I don't see why, as long as the IDE sees the build file as a genuine source file for the language it's written in.
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Re:Dotty: a next generation compiler for Scala by lmm on Monday June 27, 2016 @08:37AM (#11985746)
The IDE would need to run it to understand the build definition, which then gets into halting-problem issues.
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