When roadmap?

When can we see a roadmap with the features to come in IntelliJ IDEA 8?
At least an approximate time would do.
Also, if you don't know for sure, please tell us some of the features with high chance of being implemented.

If you want this to be a surprise I totally understand, it's just that the wait is killing me.

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- FreeMarker
- Seam
- Flex
- JavaScript debugging
- SQL


Of all the features our dev team has most wanted in IDEA it has to be FreeMarker support ... this will be a god send if you can autocomplete freemarker expressions. Flex, javascript and sql all will be quite welcome as well :)


Regards,

Bruce Ritchie

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- FreeMarker
...


Of all the features our dev team has most wanted in IDEA it has to be
FreeMarker support ... this will be a god send if you can autocomplete
freemarker expressions. ...

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Bruce Ritchie


I can't believe I'm going to say this, but FreeMarker syntax coloring would be tremendously helpful. Markup languages are the bane of my existence, so while I usually downplay the value of syntax coloring, when it comes to FreeMarker (and HTML and JSP and GSP), it really would help me.


Randall Schulz

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Hello Duncan,

I've tried about every Ruby on Rails editor out there (Aptana, Coda,
Textmate, Vim, Netbeans...) and I have to say even though your
implementation is lacking in features I consider it the best because
it simply works.

With that said however, I'd like to see the following added to RoR
support:

1) I'd like to see an integrated debugger. I know I can use ruby-debug
but I'm spoiled by Intellij's Java capabilities.


The debugger will be implemented in version 8.

2) Better code completion/intelli sense. It's pretty good now, but
there are many keywords that are not picked up.


Any details?

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Waiting for Scala support. :)

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"Dmitry Jemerov" <yole@jetbrains.com> wrote in message
news:609b4cc98d01f8ca4ddeefaa486e@news.jetbrains.com...

Unfortunately there's not too much to brag about in the core Java support
area - but you'll soon see why. :)


I hope you're just being coy. I write plain old Java (how old fashioned) and
don't use any of the things you listed (nor most of the other bundled things
currently in IDEA).

-JZ


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Java?

Java... Java...

Oh! Java! Right. Java. I remember that. Java. Oh, that takes me back.

Silly goose. Java. ... Hey guys! This dude's writing ... Java!! [chortle]

Java!!


RRS

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I write plain old Java (how old fashioned) and
don't use any of the things you listed (nor most of the other bundled things
currently in IDEA).


Same for our team.

Tom

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+1

Scala looks like a promising language. I might use it later this year. Let's hope that IDEA gets support for it by then. Otherwise, can you recommend any text editors with basic Scala support?

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+ 1 for Scala!

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Unfortunately there's not too much to brag about in the core Java support
area - but you'll soon see why. :)


Dmitry, Should we be able to see why with this first Diana EAP release or is the soon later?

Thanks,
Jon

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Hello Jon,

>> Unfortunately there's not too much to brag about in the core Java
>> support area - but you'll soon see why. :)
>>

Dmitry, Should we be able to see why with this first Diana EAP
release or is the soon later?


One part of the answer is the first sentence in http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/IDEADEV/DianaPluginMigration+Guide

Another is the Python screenshot I posted here a while ago, or a similar
(newer) one here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/intelliyole/Screenshots/photo#5182005242068534770

Cryptic enough? :)

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Could it be better support for multiple languages? Maybe even supporting
most the same refactorings as Java has?

I would love to have the same quality of support for Scala as Java has. :)

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Hello Esko,

No, not quite that. Refactorings are quite language-dependent and do not
really need much core support.

The main problem with Scala is that it's a very big and complex language,
and not the lack of core IDEA support to implement some Scala features.

Could it be better support for multiple languages? Maybe even
supporting most the same refactorings as Java has?

I would love to have the same quality of support for Scala as Java
has. :)

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Cryptic enough? :)


Dmitry,

I think you need to up the inscrutability factor. :)

Jon

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Ah, you're re-writing Idea in Python!
Oh wait, I'm a day late ...
R

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Another is the Python screenshot I posted here a while ago, or a similar
(newer) one here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/intelliyole/Screenshots/photo#5182005242068534770

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Cryptic enough? :)


OK, so you're going to split the product up. More like Eclipse, I guess? A
base environment with pluggable languages, etc. If this means I get unload a
lot of the stuff I never use, I like it!

-JZ


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Hello Jordan,

>> Another is the Python screenshot I posted here a while ago, or a
>> similar (newer) one here:
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/intelliyole/Screenshots/photo#51820052420
>> 68534770
>>
>> Cryptic enough? :)
>>

OK, so you're going to split the product up. More like Eclipse, I
guess? A base environment with pluggable languages, etc. If this means
I get unload a lot of the stuff I never use, I like it!


What would that stuff be? I thought that almost all of the stuff that Java
developers could want to unload was already moved into plugins in version 7.

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Jordan Zimmerman wrote:
>> Another is the Python screenshot I posted here a while ago, or a similar
>> (newer) one here:
>> http://picasaweb.google.com/intelliyole/Screenshots/photo#5182005242068534770
>>
>> Cryptic enough? :)


OK, so you're going to split the product up. More like Eclipse, I guess? A
base environment with pluggable languages, etc. If this means I get unload a
lot of the stuff I never use, I like it!

-JZ

Specifically, I reckon rather than marketing a base product with
pluggable languages, it's going to be a number of new products each
based around a different language - PyCharm being one of the first new
products, based around python.

Are we getting warmer?

N.

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Hello Nathan,

>>> Another is the Python screenshot I posted here a while ago, or a
>>> similar (newer) one here:
>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/intelliyole/Screenshots/photo#5182005242
>>> 068534770
>>>
>>> Cryptic enough? :)
>>>
>> OK, so you're going to split the product up. More like Eclipse, I
>> guess? A base environment with pluggable languages, etc. If this
>> means I get unload a lot of the stuff I never use, I like it!
>>
>> -JZ
>>

Specifically, I reckon rather than marketing a base product with
pluggable languages, it's going to be a number of new products each
based around a different language - PyCharm being one of the first new
products, based around python.

Are we getting warmer?


Yep, that's about it.

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+1 for Scala.

My company is serious about using this as they have just hired a contractor to extend an Eclipse plugin.

I don't want to have to switch between editors for Java and Scala so please include soon!

Thanks, Paul.

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Hello Paul,

+1 for Scala.

My company is serious about using this as they have just hired a
contractor to extend an Eclipse plugin.

I don't want to have to switch between editors for Java and Scala so
please include soon!


Note that our Scala plugin is open-source, so if your company is willing
to invest resources into Scala support in IDEs, we will be very happy to
receive contributions to our Scala plugin as well.

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Hi Dmitry. I did ask but as the boss uses eclipse (and his wingman), I was never going to get anywhere :(

The plugin the contractor is updating is open-source so it might be of some use. However, the majority of work we've asked him to do regards usability issues with eclipse (such as having scala and java code in the same project (or whatever eclipse calls a module), so it will probably be of very limited use.

Still, if the idea scala plugin turns out to be excellent (which I'm sure it will be), I can demonstrate it and you might get a few converts!

Thanks, Paul.

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I think thats what they basically did in Eclipse, just cloned the Mercurial plugin and modified to fit the differences.

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