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Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive by kellysutton on Friday August 19, 2011 @12:12PM (#2903856)
Well done on the tool.

The Java Overlords should take note: this is what the language should look like. It shouldn't take special software to be expressive.

Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive by projectileboy on Friday August 19, 2011 @12:30PM (#2903931)
Exactly my reaction. While I'm very impressed by the tool, my main impression was that the language should have constructs allowing one to as expressive as possible, at the appropriate level of abstraction.
Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive by ibejoeb on Friday August 19, 2011 @01:10PM (#2904046)
I'd use this less to deal with a language's lack of expressiveness and more to deal with abstruse APIs. It would be very useful for httplib2 or SQLAlchemy, even though both are written in a pretty expressive language.

I'd especially be interested in creating snippets for my own proprietary APIs, which are typically move more quickly and are generally less documented that big, established public APIs.

Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive by dougwightman on Friday August 19, 2011 @06:34PM (#2905147)
I think this is a great use case. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help :)