[erlang-questions] Erlang analysis and refactoring: In Erlang or for Erlang?

[Kirill Zaborski]

Kenneth,
Is the WxWidgets binding being implemented by Ericsson and will be sometime
a part of OTP?

Regards,
Kirill.

On 6/11/07, Kenneth Lundin <kenneth.lundin@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> I think it is very natural to write refactoring and analysis for
> Erlang in Erlang.
> - There already exist many different parsers, scanners and refactoring
> tools
> for Erlang written in Erlang so it is easy to reuse and improve
> starting from these.
> - It is easy to maintain and it is portable over every platform where
> Erlang runs.
>
> The weak point is Erlang and graphics for the presentation and input
> (most of the actual work is really independent on graphics).
>
> There is ongoing work on a Wxwidgets binding for Erlang which looks
> really promising. With this it would be possible to write the whole
> graphics in Erlang and get nice native look and feel for Mac OSx,
> Windows, Linux, Solaris .....
>
> I think that approach has a potential to attract a broader audience
> than something
> working only on Mac OSx which I understand is the case with Cocoa.
>
> Another approach for refactoring tools is to use Eclipse (it is Java, I
> know).
> There is already a project ErlIde http://erlide.sourceforge.net/ where
> there are some refactoring capabilities and more to come. Note the
> Erlide plugin is
> written in both Java (mostly GUI parts since it is needed to take
> advantage of
> the Eclipse architecture) and Erlang (the analysis, scanning, parsing
> etc.)
>
> /Kenneth (Erlang/OTP team at Ericsson)
>
> On 6/8/07, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I'm trying to decide whether I should use Erlang to write a analysis
> > and refactoring tool for Erlang (think IDE), or should use Lisp or
> > OCaml and connect to the Erlang VM.
> >
> > The complication is that Mac is my target platform and there's no
> > Cocoa bridge for Erlang. LispWorks for Mac has a bridge and Lisp is
> > nice for writing compilers and language tools. I also believe that
> > the last Erlang refactoring tool was written in SML.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >     Thanks, Joel
> >
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