Rewriting linter-javac in ES(6?)

[florianb]

I am currently working hard making bugs testable, ironing bumps out and enhance the use of classpaths in general.

It unfortunately seems to be a huge effort to make the linter-javac-plugin :smoking:-testable without touching the plugin itself. I currently don't want to add any untested functionality to prevent delivering a failure to our users.

Therefore i file this issue to collect ideas and feedback on the rewrite which will be accomplished with the "Release 2.0.0"-Milestone.

:santa: Wish List

Every wish will become a separate issue, to allow us the detailed discussion of concerns.

• [ ] Make the specs as nice as at linter-php. :sparkles:
• [ ] Use the sourcepath-option for speedup (see #98). 🐎
• [ ] Lint on edit! :racehorse:
• [ ] Separate concerns (put supportive logic into separate modules). :scissors:
• [ ] Lower startup-time under 50ms. :racehorse:
• [ ] Always default to language en with UTF-8 encoding by using -J-Duser.language=en and -J-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 (see #36).
• [ ] Introduce the atom-javaenv-package to use its API to the Java-Environment. :star2: :wrench: :star2:
• [ ] Cross-dependent Java-files should be considered (as in #32).
• [ ] Deliver javac-args by an argsfile not by commandline - see #58 for further information.
• [ ] Allow any path-config-settings to either contain path-names or a file-reference which then contains the path-settings (see #99). 💅
• [ ] Document deviously source-parts (like #100). 🔦
• [ ] Create a Wiki for Contributors. :gift_heart:
• [ ] Add Debug-mode/button/switch allowing users easily discovering misbehavior. :bug: :hammer:
• [ ] Add metrics as @Arcanemagus mentioned

  Help me

• finding ideas
• give feedback on the codebase
• create PR's

[florianb]

Proof the implementation of performance tests.

[Arcanemagus]

I recently put performance metrics into linter-jscs (implemented testing a bug and decided to put it in there for good). You can check out how I did that here as an inspiration.

[florianb]

Great idea - thanks @Arcanemagus. I guess i'll implement something similar.

[Justsnoopy30]

Is this project abandoned or forgotten about? Nothing has progressed for 4 years.

[florianb]

No. I don't use Atom anymore and i don't program Java currently. So i felt no pressure about it. Feel free to contribute.