Recently i've tried different IDEs for perl5 and this experience was... sad...

Before that day i've developed for a long-long time using NP++, no kidding. I'm windows user so no vim or smth.

Padre - seems really cool idea, but unstable and looks abandoned.

Currently working with Komodo, but it's far from perfect, got bugs and even than - costs money.

From my own experience, the most powerful and convenient IDEs are Microsoft VS and Intellij IDEA, so I decided to try to write plugin for IDEA.

First and main problem with perl IDE (as I can see) is too free syntax. No BNF, no nothing. You can't use some generators to make lexer and parser for you. They may help, but only help.

I've tried to dig into perl sources and port toke.c into Java. Bad idea. Too much legacy code, too much little things that i don't understand. And porting of every function adds few more functions to port. And some of them requires very deep understanding of what is going on inside it. So i've dropped the idea and started from scratch.

Currently, i'm building lexer using JFlex and i think it's going pretty well. Some coloring already works.

Now i need to improve lexer, start to write a parser and implement IDEA features. There is a lot of work to do, so if anyone interested in such plugin and would like to participate, you are welcome: https://github.com/hurricup/Perl5-IDEA

You may also contact me via skype: hurricup or my gmail email: hurricup.

I belive that together we can do it.

P.S. To participate you should have some knowlege of perl and Java.

P.S.S. If you have no experience with Java but pretty familiar with Perl's insides - your consultations would be appreciated.

In reply to Creating Perl5 plugin for Intellij IDEA (Camelcade) by hurricup

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