Forge — jvpts11

Repository: jvpts11/Forge-IDE
Language: Polaron
Status: A working native graphical IDE, with over 400 engine self-checks
On the desktop: Open Forge

Forge is the first flagship application of the language. It is a native, from-scratch IDE built entirely in Polaron and drawn through the Polaron-OpenGL stack, which is how the language proves it can carry real, GUI-heavy software rather than command-line programs alone.

What works today

Editing — multi-cursor with column select, snapshot undo and redo, auto-indent, block indent and comment toggle, bracket matching, folding, bookmarks, and find and replace across files.
Navigation — go to definition, including into the bundled standard library, find references, an outline panel, breadcrumbs, workspace symbol search, quick open and a fuzzy command palette.
Language intelligence — Polaron highlighting, autocomplete, hover, and live diagnostics: the compiler runs on the unsaved buffer, debounced, so mistakes surface as you type. Quick fixes, polaron explain and workspace-wide rename come with it.
Git — status with gutter change bars, commit, push, branches, and a diff view in both side-by-side and unified form.
Terminals — several integrated terminals, each running its shell behind a real pseudo-console, so colours, cursor movement, history and tab completion behave as they do in a real console.
Debugger — a Debug Adapter Protocol client with gutter breakpoints, stepping, call stack and variables, driving lldb-dap over the DWARF that polaron build --debug emits.

How it is built

The editor engine is decoupled from graphics and tested headless, without a window. The graphics layer is a second view backend over the same controller: a pixel-space quad batcher, a glyph atlas, a frame composer, and the native window and event loop.

Forge.exe test runs the engine self-check, more than four hundred checks, and polaron build compiles the whole of src/ into one program.