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To be clear the author of this IS the author of code mirror! That should be in large bold letters on that first page (it is on the crowd sourcing page). My first thought was "really? this is just code mirror with added cleverness, sort of lame to profit from it" - totally different story when it's the author adding value to something he has already contributed to the community. In that case this is the "premium" plan for code mirror.

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Note that Tern's core is editor-independent. I made the demo on top of CodeMirror, obviously, since I know it very well. But the meat of this project does not have anything to with the editor that's used to interact with it.

Still, I wouldn't be shy about the fact that you did CodeMirror. It makes a huge difference to me....you are a known quantity and convinces me that this is a solid project.

And I'd think that CodeMirror is the obvious thing to hook this into, for the rest of us as well.

That "added cleverness" is a big story in itself. Linking it with an editor is trivial. If you never tried to do static analysis on a dynamic language like JS you can't really appreciate just how smart Tern is (or wants to be).

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