I'm happy to announce that UNA now has basic support for the Fan language. This includes quite nice syntax highlighting, source snippets for commonly used constructs, autocompletion for keywords and basic types, and direct detection of errors in the Fan compiler output (which can be run from directly inside UNA).
The solo coding edition is 100% free for the taking, so grab your copy at http://www.n-brain.net, and remember to report any glitches.
Thanks Brian & Andy for giving the JVM world a saner alternative to Scala. Keep things simple and clean!
brianSun 22 Jun 2008
John - thanks for the Fan support! UNA looks like a pretty cool tool, very nicely polished.
Yes, UNA is written almost entirely in Java, with snippets of DSLs which are interpreted by Java code.
I take it as a compliment that you can't tell it uses Swing. :-) The interface is highly usable and very attractive, especially on Windows where we use a custom skin. The screencasts, however, are done on a Mac.
I had a hand in designing most of the interface, but it was coded by other developers, who are quite good with Swing -- even if they share my general distaste for its verbosity and complexity.
JohnDG Sun 22 Jun 2008
I'm happy to announce that UNA now has basic support for the Fan language. This includes quite nice syntax highlighting, source snippets for commonly used constructs, autocompletion for keywords and basic types, and direct detection of errors in the Fan compiler output (which can be run from directly inside UNA).
The solo coding edition is 100% free for the taking, so grab your copy at http://www.n-brain.net, and remember to report any glitches.
Thanks Brian & Andy for giving the JVM world a saner alternative to Scala. Keep things simple and clean!
brian Sun 22 Jun 2008
John - thanks for the Fan support! UNA looks like a pretty cool tool, very nicely polished.
andy Mon 23 Jun 2008
Cool!
JohnDG Wed 25 Jun 2008
Finally, a 5 minute screencast to get people going: http://www.vimeo.com/1228264
andy Wed 25 Jun 2008
Nice work John.
brian Wed 25 Jun 2008
John - is UNA written in Java? Is it Swing?
JohnDG Wed 25 Jun 2008
Yes, UNA is written almost entirely in Java, with snippets of DSLs which are interpreted by Java code.
I take it as a compliment that you can't tell it uses Swing. :-) The interface is highly usable and very attractive, especially on Windows where we use a custom skin. The screencasts, however, are done on a Mac.
I had a hand in designing most of the interface, but it was coded by other developers, who are quite good with Swing -- even if they share my general distaste for its verbosity and complexity.