Is there a recommended Prolog ID for Mac?

Question

I would like to do something in Prolog. You just need a good Mac environment to make it no pain in the butt. Which IDE do you recommend?

Answer 1

According to the "not quite IDE" answers, Textmate seems to be a favorite of OS X developers.

There seems to be support for the Prolog community.

• https://github.com/textmate/prolog.tmbundle
• http://calltopower.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/prolog-textmate-plugin/

Answer 2

There is also a free Eclipse-based Prolog IDE, PDT, available from:

https://sewiki.iai.uni-bonn.de/research/pdt/start

Answer 3

Not exactly about IDes, but the current Logtalk distribution includes support for several text editors and syntax markers that can also be used to program Prolog:

http://trac.logtalk.org/browser/trunk/wenv

Prolog FAQs also provide useful information on editing and publishing Prolog code (sections 15 and 16):

http://www.logic.at/prolog/faq/

Answer 4

There are several plugins available for Eclipse that work well with prologs. Theres is the SICStus plugin that we use on Uni, although I do not believe it is free. There are also several other options in the Eclipse Marketplace (in the Help menu).

Answer 5

Try CiaoDE plus GNU Emacs. CiaoDE is a modern prolog system with many libraries running on OS X, Linux and Windows.

Answer 6

You can use XGP for this.