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jackfirth
User interface ideas
How should resyntax surface suggestions to users? I can think of several possibilities:
- A DrRacket plugin that shows you suggestions for the current file. Maybe something similar for
racket-mode, maybe even something hooked up to racket-langserver. - A GitHub integration that makes suggestions at code review time, possibly with some way to automatically commit them to the pull request branch.
- A GitHub Actions workflow that automatically opens a pull request refactoring your code once a day/week/etc.
- A command-line tool for refactoring files directly.
- A web app where you can tell a bot to refactor a racket package and open a pull request.
Ideas and opinions welcomed!
Gave up on the github pull request integration approach for now. Seems there isn't yet a way for github actions to produce annotations: https://github.community/t/what-are-annotations/16173
New user interface idea: a Discord bot (and/or a Slack bot) so that people can run resyntax over code in chatrooms and get suggestions that way. Would be especially useful in the #help channel of the Racket Discord server, where students often show up and share code looking for advice.
Do you have plan to make some functions as interface? Then racket-mode or racket-langserver can reuse them.
Yes, though that'd be the programmatic interface. I'm not sure what it will look like yet.
Maybe a function type is file -> (listof suggestion), a suggestion would be a text -> text? From my understanding this model can fit racket-langserver and racket-mode both.