Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#1

Post by adrusi » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 5:20 AM UTC

This is assuming you didn't already claim a copy during the kickstarter. I am a vim user, and lightroom seems more IDE like than I'm used to, but it also seems like the best IDE-like environment I've seen. I'm interested how much of HN is actually interested enough to buy it.

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#2

Post by jameswyse » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 5:27 AM UTC

I backed it on Kickstarter, but there's no way to say until I get my hands on a copy. I'm actually pretty happy with sublime text 2 just now.

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#3

Post by wmf » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 5:28 AM UTC

Light Table. I bought Lightroom years ago. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#4

Post by gexla » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 5:31 AM UTC

As with any release of something new, we would probably at least need to wait for it to stabilize and for useful community add-ons to be created before we could be as productive as we are with our other tools. I won't even look at it until I hear about it as much as I have heard of Sublime text 2 (as a useful tool as opposed to a hyped up Kickstarter project.)

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#5

Post by adrusi » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 6:27 AM UTC

wmf wrote: post #3

Light Table. I bought Lightroom years ago. :-)

fixed, thanks :)

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#6

Post by Toph » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 8:35 AM UTC

I was under the impression it was going to remain open source unless terms have changed. On their Kickstarter page under FAQ, that seems to be the case still.

That said, its too early to tell.

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#7

Post by factorialboy » Sat, Jun 16, 2012, 12:37 PM UTC

I'll check out a free trial to see if its a serious replacement for my IntelliJ IDEA based dev setup.

Making a video is one thing, delivering on the product is another. But I do support their concept and wish them my best.

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#8

Post by brandoncordell » Sun, Jun 17, 2012, 5:24 AM UTC

I don't think anything can pull me away from Vim. Some of it looks nice, but I don't think it would be much use to me. I'll have to wait until I actually get my hands on it though.

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#9

Post by shortfold » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 9:07 AM UTC

simply no

Re: Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

#10

Post by a_macgregor » Fri, Jun 22, 2012, 10:29 AM UTC

Depends, if they can offer the same amount of features and plugins than SublimeText2 then yes.