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Re: WeScheme (web IDE)

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Post by shriramk » Wed, Jun 29, 2011, 12:47 PM UTC

alttab wrote: post #14

To gain any sort of traction, I suggest allowing more choices than code, log-in, or watch a video. For someone who doesn't necessarily want to code scheme right away, log-in with their account, or put headphones in to watch a video - you've lost them immediately. Never to come back. The option that is missing - let me read about it.

Yes, we will. In the meanwhile, you can read about it here: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/ys...

Re: WeScheme (web IDE)

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Post by shriramk » Wed, Jun 29, 2011, 12:54 PM UTC

djm wrote: post #10

rynop wrote: post #8

How is this different than http://cloud9ide.com/ ? Cloud9 seems to be much more mature and feature rich as well.

this is for writing scheme and compiling to js for running client-side. Cloud9ide seems to be an ide for writing directly in js or php/ruby etc.

Also, WeScheme goes to great pains to implement the "world" computing model, rather than only exposing the underlying computational model. Implementing this atop JavaScript is a fair bit of effort. That's where our resources have gone; Cloud9 has spent its effort elsewhere.

You can read about the model here: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/ff... A fun exercise for hackers is to guess the consequences of this for running atop JavaScript.