1. Exercism launch really really soon
- Posted by axtens_bruce in April
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All it takes is for one boolean in to go to true.
About all that's left, and we can launch without it, is the syntax highlighting. I've noticed the VSCode plugin uses a TextMate setup. I can't quite figure out what Exercism uses: I see highlightjs in some places and CodeMirror in others.
2. Re: Exercism launch really really soon
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) in April
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All it takes is for one boolean in to go to true.
About all that's left, and we can launch without it, is the syntax highlighting. I've noticed the VSCode plugin uses a TextMate setup. I can't quite figure out what Exercism uses: I see highlightjs in some places and CodeMirror in others.
Looks like they already have a few custom codemirror and highlightjs repositories.
Can you find or ask for some clarification on where highlightjs or CodeMirror might be used?
I'm guessing highlightjs is for static highlighting and CodeMirror is (obviously) the code editor.
-Greg
3. Re: Exercism launch really really soon
- Posted by axtens_bruce in April
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4. Re: Exercism launch really really soon
- Posted by petelomax in May
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Looks like they already have a few custom codemirror (and highlightjs) repositories.
I just took a closer look at codemirror and have to say I'm seriously under-impressed. I'm not phased one bit by the nitty-gritty language-specific changes, it's the overall thing. Besides, the results are not exactly stunning, at best barely passable (hjs is at least 700 times better than cm). I kinda realised there is no quickstart guide for one very good reason: there is no quickstart. I finally found this in the midst of all the arrogant codswallop:
The packages are distributed as ES6 modules. This means that it is not currently practical to run the library without some kind of bundler (which packages up a modular program into a single big JavaScript file) or module loader.
And that completely puts the kibosh on the whole adventure. Unless someone else can somehow take one of those custom exercism/codemirror components and put together a basic edit-run package I can actually run locally.
(the elixir one is both the simplest and has the largest number of similar packages I could perhaps crib bits 'n pieces from, but I'd take either of the other two if that's any easier or perhaps more precisely actually possible.)
PS: I can actually run cm5, but exercism has just "upgraded" (hah!) to cm6, so that's not going to fly, is it?
PPS: A couple of months ago I managed to publish my hjs effort to npm, but it took me over a year to figure out how. Just so you know.
Update: OK, after hitting a quite ludicrous number of dead ends, I finally managed to squeeze a tiny bit of one of my little toes in the door, but I'm still completely stumped, and have asked for some help on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78455889/develop-a-codemirror6-language-pack-basic-setup-steps - and it's already been downvoted twice.
UPDATE: I've completely given up on cm6, but implemented a cm5 language mode, demo here: http://phix.x10.mx/cm5/test.htm (and no, I didn't pick those colours/that theme, but it's the one used on exercism, at least for us lucky insiders in dark mode.)
