Consider moving some languages (code coloring) out of core

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Issue by peterflynn
Wednesday Feb 27, 2013 at 01:27 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#2969

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In #2844 it was pointed out that some of the languages Brackets has syntax highlighting for out of the box are quite uncommon for modern web developers. Now that it's possible to do so, we could consider moving some languages out into extensions that we don't ship by default.

That only seems worth doing if it has benefits, e.g. improved startup time. We should try removing a bunch of languages from core and timing warm/cold startups to see if it has much effect.

If we do want to remove languages, we'd have to decide three things:

• Which languages to remove
• Where to host the extensions (and are they officially supported by the Brackets team? probably wouldn't be much work)
• What granularity -- one extension per language? Or try to bundle up related language "packs"?

Once we've decided that, the implementation is pretty trivial -- basically a starter bug.

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Comment by peterflynn
Wednesday Feb 27, 2013 at 01:31 GMT

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Languages we could consider moving out of core: C, C++, C#, Java, Clojure, Lua, SQL, Haxe.

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Comment by peterflynn
Wednesday Feb 27, 2013 at 01:35 GMT

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There's also some risk here: users might think Brackets flat-out can't support a given language if they open a file and see no highlighting out of the box. (We have that risk already for non-core filetypes, but we'd be adding to it by removing stuff from core). There were two suggestions for dealing with that:
-@DennisKehrig suggested we could have some sort of auto-discovery mechanism built into our future extension registry -- our server would know if any extension exists to support a given file extension and could inform the user if so.
-@gruehle suggseted a simpler idea -- one we could implement now. On first open of an unknown file extension, we just pop a dialog telling the user that an extension may be available and linking to the extensions page.

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Comment by peterflynn
Friday Mar 01, 2013 at 20:06 GMT

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I just assigned it to you :-) Maybe Peter forgot you were part of the repo's org?

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Comment by DennisKehrig
Friday Mar 01, 2013 at 20:08 GMT

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Yay ^^

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Comment by pthiess
Friday Mar 01, 2013 at 20:57 GMT

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Dennis' name didn't show up in my list of names, now it does, I love it -:) Thanks for adding him, Peter!

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Comment by njx
Tuesday Apr 01, 2014 at 21:03 GMT

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Reviewing - I have a counterproposal: actually keep all the languages in core (and maybe add all the ones we have in codemirror), but just lazy-load the modes, so they aren't loaded until a file that uses that language is open.

To me, low pri

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Comment by nanito2757
Monday Sep 25, 2017 at 02:05 GMT

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how to change the language to ide?
to the spanish. thks