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Re: A new Light Table experience

#11

Post by pixelbath » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it.

I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite confused.

Looking around on the site and some of the comments here, it appears you're using Clojure. Does this IDE only support Clojure?

Re: A new Light Table experience

#12

Post by octix » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:53 PM UTC

Has anyone started using LT? Is it productive? Should java devs even bother with this? Thank you.

Re: A new Light Table experience

#13

Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

amckenna wrote: post #5

I know python support is planned, but will it be integrated alpha/beta or will we have to wait until after the 1.0 release?

It'll definitely be before 1.0, but I'm not exactly sure when. Right now it's still just me on the code side, so it depends a bit on how hiring goes.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

pixelbath wrote: post #11

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it. I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite conf…

Think of LT as something more akin to an editor in spirit - you won't see watch windows and all the craziness you often see in "big" IDE's. In that regard, you use it like you use any editor. If you're working with Clojure, ClojureScript, or Javascript code, however, you can evaluate a block inline by pressing Cmd-Enter (or Ctrl-Enter).

Now that we have an experience we plan to stick with more documentation and getting started content will be coming in the next few days. :)

EDIT: I didn't think about SVN, we do filter out Git, but this should just be customizable. Added an issue for it [1].

[1]: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues/266

Re: A new Light Table experience

#15

Post by sciurus » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

pixelbath wrote: post #11

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it. I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite conf…

You may find the Kickstarter page informative-

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table

"What languages will it support?

The first two languages it will support are Javascript and Clojure, but the application will be written in such a way that adding new languages can happen through plugins."

Re: A new Light Table experience

#16

Post by ibdknox » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

octix wrote: post #12

Has anyone started using LT? Is it productive? Should java devs even bother with this? Thank you.

It's not going to be more useful to a Java developer than Eclipse is currently, but that's because we're going after a very different end goal. FWIW, all our work is done in LT and it is far more efficient than I used to be with Vim.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by dpick » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

ibdknox wrote: post #8

dpick wrote: post #6

Stack Size Exceeded when trying to open a ~3500 line clojure app :(.

a ~3500 line file? What do you mean by open? Could you put up an issue [1] with a bit more information so we can track it down? [1]: https://github.com/Kodowa/Light-Table-Playground/issues

It's a project with a bunch of files, totals around 3500 lines. I'll post an issue.

Re: A new Light Table experience

#18

Post by pixelbath » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 5:07 PM UTC

sciurus wrote: post #15

pixelbath wrote: post #11

This is a very pretty editor. That said, I have no freaking idea what I'm supposed to do. I've been messing around with it for around 15 minutes now, and I still don't understand it. I added a PHP website folder and got no code hinting or anything else beyond "here is the match for your parenthesis" for either PHP or Javascript. This also resulted in my "navigate" tab being filled with SVN meta-files. I am quite conf…

You may find the Kickstarter page informative- http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table "What languages will it support? The first two languages it will support are Javascript and Clojure, but the application will be written in such a way that adding new languages can happen through plugins."

Ah, thank you very much for the context. I guess I've been a bit out of the HN loop.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

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Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by mytrile » Thu, Feb 28, 2013, 5:09 PM UTC

Everytime I update LT the syntax highlighting is reducing by the number of colors used. I expect the color theme in the final to be grayscale. Appart from that, awesome job guys.