create new project

[vrozen]

There's no 'create new Rascal project' option yet.
Opening existing Rascal projects, created using Eclipse, does work.

[DavyLandman]

I agree, that experience is nice, but I don't think there exist any "new project" wizard in vs code.

I think they assume you use the language own scaffolding. Like yeoman for npm or maven archetype's. So I think we'll have to go for that route (and have a clear documentation that show how to use it).

[jurgenvinju]

we can simply add a command for creating a new Rascal project with a small template. That would go a long way in onboarding new programmers. Currently it's too hard to get started from scratch.

[DavyLandman]

if we could have that command run mvn archetype, it would also work for context outside vscode

[jurgenvinju]

nice plan! two fish with one stone. Let's add that functionality to the rascal-maven-plugin project.

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[DavyLandman]

I think for maven archetypes you need a special kind of project: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-creating-archetypes.html

and maybe we could get that published on maven central? so that the initial experience just works without any custom maven repos?

[jurgenvinju]

that sounds good. we'll make a small project called rascal-maven-archetypes and put it both on grand-central and usethesource.io and it will contain a pom.xml that refers to usethesource.io so people have access to our latest releases without a thought.

[jurgenvinju]

Notice that #248 is working to solve this proposal.