ANNOUNCEMENT Genio - The Haiku IDE

Nexus-6 · February 20, 2023, 7:33pm

We have an experimental branch supporting LSP via clangd.
We need to do some tests before merging into main, hopefully in the next few days.

andreas_dr · February 20, 2023, 7:52pm

Wow. Nice. Looking forward to try Genio then very soon. <3

Starcrasher · March 24, 2023, 1:50pm

GSOC is approaching, it would be nice if students could use it, or at least try it, bringing new eyes on what can be missing etc.

Andrea · March 25, 2023, 7:34am

Hello, I’ve been trying it for a couple of days and Genio is really interesting even at this stage of development.

nintendo1889 · March 25, 2023, 3:13pm

If codewarrior can still run on 32-bit haiku, then why not use it, and cross compile to 64 with another tool? Was it not the best BeOS ide?

extrowerk · March 26, 2023, 8:36am

Get it open sourced first.

SCollins · March 26, 2023, 1:07pm

Motorola/Continental is never going to open source Code warrior.

genio is making progress, hows syntax support ??

cian · March 26, 2023, 1:10pm

Even though they still sell other Codewarrior products; I’d expect that finding anyone in NXP that is even aware the specific BeOS versionexisted, let alone someone who has the authorisation to open source it, would be impossible.

I’m not sure how much if any changes Be made to BeIDE from the licenced code from Metrowerks also - NXP as successor wouldn’t own (or likely have) those changes.

Nexus-6 · March 26, 2023, 1:31pm

Probably BeIDE, the incarnation of CodeWarrior on BeOS, was the only one back in the day.
What is the point in using a 25 years old IDE with Haiku today?
For that kind of approach to an IDE, there is Paladin (+ Koder).
Moreover, BeIDE doesn’t work well on Haiku 32bit regardless, due to the hardcoded path to system components, libraries and headers.

Nexus-6 · May 24, 2023, 11:56am

Here we are, we did it!
After around 6 months, 508 commits and countless fixes, new features, and discussions, Genio has been released in beta on Haiku Depot!
Since the first announcement on this very thread we have done so many things…
Firts of all, Genio has a new maintainer. Welcome @jackburton!
In the second place Genio has got a new home, we moved it from my personal repo to a dedicated org.

Here is a list of all the features we have implemented. It is not comprehensive and we have probably missed something:

LSP

Autocompletion
Signature help
Go to definition/implementation/declaration
Code formatter

Project Browser

Live sync with the file system
Rename and delete files and folders in place
Show element in Tracker
Open Terminal pointing to the selected directory

Genio now supports project and file templates!

With the File->New menu, the developer can create: an empty new folder, a new file from a list of templates (c++ header, source, text file, and Makefile) , a new project and automatically open it.
Genio supports built-in templates that are shipped with the IDE and user defined templates, as well.

Editor

Duplicate current line
Delete lines
Comment/uncomment lines
Switch between source and header
Setting Zoom In/Zoom Out level for all tabs is saved in general preferences
Tabs can be moved and rearranged by dragging and releasing them onto the new position

Other

Find in files
Links to file and build errors in Build Log and Console I/O
“Problems” tab, powered by clang

Please have in mind that this is the first beta release ever. We do expect bugs and/or misbehaviours.
We would truly appreciate your feedback, bug reports, feature proposals, and above all contributions.
Discussions are enabled on the repository, you are encouraged to report bugs in the Issue section and start discussions about general topics in Discussions.
We really look forward to hearing from you!

Special thanks to AmosCaster for creating Ideam, @zuMi for creating Genio artwork, my partners in crime @xeD and @jackburton and the whole Haiku Italian community for their support.
Thanks also to everyone who spent some time trying Genio, reporting bugs and leaving comments on Github.

Happy coding!

The Genio Team
Andrea, Stefano, Davide

Begasus · May 24, 2023, 1:16pm

Congrats!!! I already love it (and I’m not even a developer)
Tried it out earlier, already reported upstream and managed to build a gcc11 source (ArmyKnife) with Genio, this could get me into programming lessons for Haiku finally

Screenshot from Genio and how to build for secondary architecture on 32bit:

andreas_dr · May 24, 2023, 11:31pm

Hi. Very cool. How to use the LSP features? Could not find out how to use or even enable it.

andreas_dr · May 24, 2023, 11:33pm

Oh I see. Ill try that one:

github.com

Genio-The-Haiku-IDE/Genio/blob/main/Configuring-clangd-lsp.md

# Configuring Clangd / LSP
For more advanced IDE feateures, Genio implements the LSP protocol. (https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/)
One of the most advanged C and C++ lsp server is 'clangd' included in the clang compiler suite. (more info https://clangd.llvm.org/)

First pre-requisite is to install these packages:
* latest LLVM (clang) (at the time of writing is version 12)
* gcc_syslibs_devel package

Once installed you should have the command 'clangd' ready to be used by Genio.
The clangd tool interacts with the IDE to provide all the advanced features like autocompletion, function signature information, diagnostic errors, jump to header, etc..
To obtain the best from the tool you need to configure it and your project.
At the moment this configurations must be done manually but we aim to improve Genio in order to manage these configs in a more automatic and user-friendly way.

Keep in mind that clangd tries to compile and index a set of files to provide the best information and diagnostics results.

Two main configuration point:

## The project
To let understand clangd how you want each file to be compiled, you should provide a compile database file (compile_commands.json).
The file contains, for each file of the project, the list of all the flags and include paths your compiler needs.

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andreas_dr · May 24, 2023, 11:49pm

Nice. Just installed the packages and used compiledb. Works goood! Nice. Let me test this more. <3

Andrea · May 25, 2023, 5:00am

Fantastic! It’s the most powerful and advanced program I’ve ever seen for haikus! The templates to start with are also very beautiful. <3

dwt · May 25, 2023, 6:49am

Do you guys have integrated debugger support yet?

Nexus-6 · May 25, 2023, 7:59am

Unfortunately, we need to to stick with the external Debugger for a while. Integrating it in Genio is not trivial.

cafeina · May 25, 2023, 5:02pm

Please fix in Project Settings Window the strings containing “comand” (it should be “command”) as you can see here:

and replicate this to Polyglot

waddlesplash · May 25, 2023, 5:23pm

Do you at least support setting breakpoints directly in Genio? These can be set/unset by just updating the Debugger settings file. That way, the external Debugger can be used, but more cleanly integrated with Genio.

Nexus-6 · May 25, 2023, 6:15pm

Oops! Thanks.