monkey-source VS go-lang-idea-plugin

In the previous article, I showed the process of creating a framework for a language plugin. Well-known plugins for Java, go, Frege were used as examples. There are also examples from the plugin for the Monkey language, which I developed while I was figuring out how everything works. Since my goal was not to cover everything, the plugin covers a limited subset of the language. The interpreter for Monkey can be found here.

I am working as a backend-developer, and sometimes I am tired of work routine. Deeping into some opensource helps me and I really keen on Jetbrains' product and IDEA. IDEA can be customized with plugins, which you can write yourself. The most part of IDEA's code is open-source. Developers from Jetbrains always help you to make pull request and improve your main tool. I already have the article about how to write a small plugin with one inspection. But if you want to understand how IDEA works, you should try to write a language plugin. Let's do this. As a "guinea pig" we will take the simple language - Monkey, the interpreter and compiler for it is described in the books on Golang. Since my goal was not to cover everything, the plugin covers some limited subset of this language. The interpreter can be found here.

Since the Goland plugin and then IDE arrived, they torpedoed the prior Golang plugin but it still exists and is Apache 2 https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin/bl...

I don't recall offhand what features it does or doesn't support, and certainly not GOMODULES et al but just FYI

They did a similar "fuck you" to the Terraform plugin <https://github.com/VladRassokhin/intellij-hcl/blob/v0.6.14/L...> when they hired the developer and then made the built-in Terraform functionality basically abandonware :fu:

And then, in some extra weird behavior, they have CloudFormation still in the open <https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-plugins/tree/idea/251....> but mysteriously it, too, is basically abandonware. Or maybe they're expecting the community to chip in and fix the bugs <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues?q=subsystem:%20%7BLang...>. I dunno.

go-plugin (now this plugin is known as Goland)

In the previous article, I showed the process of creating a framework for a language plugin. Well-known plugins for Java, go, Frege were used as examples. There are also examples from the plugin for the Monkey language, which I developed while I was figuring out how everything works. Since my goal was not to cover everything, the plugin covers a limited subset of the language. The interpreter for Monkey can be found here.