I have been looking at both Codea and Swift playgrounds for inspiration for their development features (like code completion, run/pause, doc integration) for my Godot ipad UI
Are there other IDEs you folks like/enjoy on iPad that I should look at?
@Migueldeicaza I’d be very into working on some shared UI components for this work if that’s of any interest! I’ve traditionally only done macOS stuff in this area, but I’m trying to branch out.
I am only getting started now, happy to post my UI code as I go along. Right now all I have is the RuneStone SwiftUI binding - thinking the next step is exploring the keyboard accessory for completion and other coding affordnaces like Codea.
I’ll post the standalone code on GitHub.com/xibbon
@Migueldeicaza That’s amazing! Where are you getting completion data from? I’m pretty familiar with LSP, but I think a more general purpose completion UI would be amazing?
Are you into a dedicated package for this? I really like small, focused libs but it isn’t for everyone.
@mattiem in my very particular case m, I don’t have an LSP to talk to; I make an in-process call to the GDScript engine’s completion api and it returns an array of completions and types
@Migueldeicaza I assumed no language server was involved because this is iOS. But I think that’s great! I’d love this component to be general enough to accommodate a bunch of different cases.
So, how do you feel about collaboration via shared package? Is that something you could live with?
@Migueldeicaza We may also be able to cook something up for tree-sitter languages. I’ve been SPM-ing them for a while now, and can be a better match when you only need a few. I can take a look at GDScript for this too.
@Migueldeicaza It's common for tree-sitter clients to internalize parsers and queries, but I think it's important to share that work across the entire tree-sitter community.
@mattiem hello hello! I am trying to put together the little code I have in a presentable state and hope to push later today.
Not sure if that will be useful, and I am neither married to it, but it will show what I am using to wire up to Godot. Happy to make changes/adjust. I do have concerns about what I am about to do to RunestoneUI, as I feel like I need some control beyond the usual SwiftUI idioms, and that might be something folks dislike.
@Migueldeicaza I’m also busy most of the day, no worries!
I glanced, and I don’t know if having this in SPM form will make things any easier for you, especially given that you’re already set up. But I really love the idea of us all working on the same set of query defs. Maybe one day!
@mattiem yeah I think I can. I am currently trying to keep all my code out of Godot and split because Godot build/test cycle is slow. So I have separated things out.
On GitHub.com/xibbon you can see the few things I have split out in the last few days. A GDScript treesitter patch, and a trimmed version of Simons’s tree sitter, plus my RunestoneUI.
@mattiem the RuneStone for SwiftUI is tricky, right now it has close to no features, but I suspect I need to expose the delegate in some form so I can send deltas to Godot rather than the full text every time
@Migueldeicaza I’m afraid I don’t know anything about Runestone. But I do have a lot of experience with text systems, tree-sitter. I bet we can figure this all out.
And I’m super pumped to start looking at a completion UI!! Do you want to make a repo for it?
@Migueldeicaza Had to check it was still available but the "best/most complete" iOS IDE I've seen is Continuous (.NET Xamarin IDE on iOS with full C# iOS API access)
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