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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.
The easiest way to create a new plugin is using the template. It is being actively developing and had already included most needed features.
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