miniblog.

Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently: * IntelliJ (for Java) * Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp) * Pharo (for Smalltalk) I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.

I'm really flattered that IntelliJ users are requesting structural diffs and referencing difftastic! (FWIW I'd love to eventually ship a reusable library, but APIs are just changing too fast right now.) https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-291212

An impressive range of features have landed in IntelliJ 2018.1: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/specials/idea/whatsnew.html A ton of additional lints, but also some interesting completion features: using isInstace to infer types, and also leveraging JSON schema!