
Code completion isn’t magic; it just feels that way
The Stack Overflow Podcast
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Anvil Code Completion
Anvil's code completion still uses the grotty little hax of mashing the text around when there's a syntax error so that you can identify the syntax error and still code complete on other lines. The big problem is that it is really twofold. When we're building for the web, youre write two programmes. You write a jarvascript program in the web browser and an whatever programme on the server. And they have to talk to each other over rest which means neither of them really knows what’s going on inside the other one. So a big thing we wanted to do with Anvil was that the environment knows about your servi code as well as your client
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