@grimmy C support could be added pretty easily. And would be a good addition for the Library which is sort of a Rosetta Stone for GNOME.

Importing libraries and stuff is probably out of scope but hopefully we'll bring the live preview to GNOME Builder. Then it's just a matter of copy pasting C examples there.

Thanks for the feedback

I need to give GNOME Builder another try soon. Last time I was struggling with difference from sublime text and found myself having to write a number of plugins which is of course keeping me from working on the stuff I should be working on.

The one I remember struggling with the most was trying to add mercurial support and not being able to follow through the git plugin at all. That said this was like 2 years ago or so.

@grimmy

GNOME Builder is seriously impressive but yeah it's hard to keep up with VSCode and Sublime teams. It's just a matter of time though.

Regardless, I believe we will be able to bring the live preview to any code editor / IDE (as long as the preview happens in a separate window).

There is a GSoC project towards that https://gsoc.gnome.org/2024/#improve-workbench-previewer

GNOME GSoC 2024 Project Ideas

Participate in Google Summer of Code with GNOME

^{gsoc.gnome.org}

@grimmy @pidgin same, even when working with JavaScript or Python.

I prototype/test/iterate on something small in Workbench then paste in my app.

What I'd like to have eventually in the platform is

* the right primitives to save and restore full app state across rebuilds
* avoid rebuilds when unnecessary (like editing ui files)

@pidgin Yeah that'd be awesome. That said we worked around this in Pidgin by creating a "Demo" protocol that gives us more control over the state of the connection and therefore the app.

Ironically, that was originally created to have data that was always safe to use in screenshots (a problem that's plagued us for a long time) but then it grew into a prototyping/demo tool as well 🤣

@grimmy @pidgin

Cool looking forward

Also, I realized you've been involved with Pidgin since pretty much the time I started using it about 20 years ago, and I just wanted to say a big thank you.

Pidgin and libpurple were a big part of my (late) childhood and FLOSS/interoperability education.

@pidgin That's awesome!! Glad you've enjoyed it!

I'm really hoping Pidgin 3 will bring a lot of people back, that is if we can ever get it out the door. It's funny how long it takes to clean up some of this REALLY old code. 😄

@Tommy

Checkout GNOME Builder!
https://apps.gnome.org/Builder/

Builder – Apps for GNOME

An IDE for GNOME – Builder is an actively developed Integrated Development Environment for GNOME. It combines integrated support for essential GNOME technologies such as GTK+, GLib, and GNOME APIs with features that any...

^{apps.gnome.org}