Crystal for Atom

This is a monolithic Atom package aiming to provide all Crystal IDE functions.

This package is currently in development.

Features

Diagnostics

This package provides diagnostic information for compilation errors in your Crystal source code, usable by two different consumer packages for Atom:

• Nuclude by Facebook
• linter by steelbrain

Test Running

In the future this package will make use of the Crystal compiler's test running functionality and show you your passing and failing tests in the editor.

Click-to-Definition

In the future this package will make use of the Crystal compiler's implementation finding functionality to bring you click-to-definition in your text editor.

Autocomplete

In the future this package will provide autocomplete suggestions for your Crystal project.

Code Formatting

In the future this package will make use of the Crystal compiler's code formatting functionality, allowing you to format your code right from the text editor.

Shards Integration

In the future this package will integrate with your Crystal projects Shard spec in order to ensure your project is setup and up to date.

Syntax Highlighting

In the future this packages aims to use the parser in the Crystal Standard Library to highlight code - a lot like how Xcode highlights C, C++, Objective-C, Objective-C++, Swift code.

Relationship to Other Crystal Packages

Relationship to linter-crystal

This package replaces linter-crystal.

Relationship to language-crystal

The package language-crystal is not available for download and installation. This package is.

Relationship to language-crystal-actual

This package will not replace language-crystal-actual.

language-crystal-actual is meant to be basic regex-based syntax highlighting. This package aims to provide parser-based syntax-highlighting.

Relationship to crystal-tools

Unlike crystal-tools this package aims to deeply integrate Crystal in the text editor, bringing you IDE functionality.