[Geany-Devel] New Direction for Geany

[Tim Tassonis]

Dear Lex


On 04/01/2017 03:25 AM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Geany having failed at being a small fast lightweight IDE and having
> become a chubby middle aged application, its time for a re-think, a
> new direction, a fresh start.
>
> Instead it is proposed that Geany embrace the paradigms of the most
> successful IDEs (like Emacs or Eclipse) and make coding with Geany
> great again.
>
> So looking at those things that are common to Emacs and Eclipse I propose:
>
> 1) Geany should change its name to start with an E, that is obviously
> neccessary,
>
> other great stuff
>

This sounds fantastic and I'm totally looking forward to Eeany! However, 
I strongly suggest some other much-needed enhancements:

- Geany should directly depend on systemd. I'm sure this should somehow 
be achievable. It should coredump if systemd is not running.

- geany should store its configuration in javascript like polkit and 
require the latest mozjs38-38.2.1

- Have you considered rewriting geany in rust?


Kind regards
Tim