Support for POV-Ray
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language-definitions
new language
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 13k
- Forks
- 1.4k
- Avg merge
- 15h 36m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
POV-Ray
The Persistence of Vision ray tracer is one of the oldest ray tracers around. It is still in active use and has a well-documented scene description language.
Additional resources
https://www.povray.org/documentation/
Contributor guide
No contributing guide indexed for this repository
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Read the POV-Ray documentation linked in the issue and inspect Prism's existing language-support structure to determine where a new syntax definition belongs. Compare with a similar language definition and its tests, then add POV-Ray support and verify that representative scene syntax is highlighted.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100