DFINITY @ Stanford Blockchain Conference 2020

[Mike_DFN]

For those who missed the live stream, Dominic Williams & Joachim Breitner presented on Motoko at this year’s conference. Video of the presentation included below.

Start of Dom’s presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyB-MJdI20&t=28m
Start of Joachim’s part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyB-MJdI20&t=35m
Start of Joachim’s Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNyB-MJdI20&t=54m25s

[Mike_DFN]

[Eric]

r/dfinity - Motoko: A Language for the Internet Computer | Stanford...

[Fulco]

This talk was great! Does anyone know how to get the warnings in visual studio that were in the video?

[dukakis]

Just finished this. Our community of devs should be very happy with this presentation

[cryptoschindler]

Seems like Joachim got the Language Server Working with VSCode. There is documentation available regarding LSP.

Related:

Motoko grammar/parser code

You’ll find “dfx ide” has been renamed “dfx _language-service” . There are some new docs here for it: https://sdk.dfinity.org/developers-guide/lang-service-ide.html

[cryptoschindler]

If anyone is looking for @nomeata code:
Stanford demo motoko code used by @nomeata

[cryptoschindler]

Related:

Motoko extension for VSCode!

I hacked this little extension together to get code completion and compiler warnings with the dfx _language-service command. This has been only tested on 0.5.2 and assumes your dfx binary lives in /usr/local/bin/dfx (this should be easy to fix). If you need to change the directory, use which dfx to get the correct path open ~/.vscode/extensions/motoko-lsp-client.motoko-lsp-client-{the-current-version-of-the-extension}/client/out/extension.js modify the path in line 12 to the output of which…