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A new Light Table experience

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Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by ibdknox »

antihero wrote: post #106
ibdknox wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 getti…

.pyc files also seem to be showing up. I've opened a python file, typed 1 + 1 and hit Ctrl+Enter and it doesn't seem to do anything.

eval is only for Clojure, ClojureScript, Javascript, and CSS right now

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

ibdknox wrote: post #73
lucian1900 wrote: post #71

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> black themes look sort of sketchy at work Could you explain that?

I'm curious as well, since most of the programmers I've met prefers a dark theme. :)

It depends on the monitor. Some cheaper displays don't have the contrast to make light on dark work; also color bleeding...

Given a non-IPS display, my older eyes prefer dark on light, even if I think light on dark looks better. Also, light on dark is almost impossible to project for demos and presentations!

But I'm sure grandparent is just referring to the fact that light table looks different enough from the workplace norm to make it standout and his activities more known (but even visual studio has a dark mode these days).

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by dbaupp »

ibdknox wrote: post #111
antihero wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.pyc files also seem to be showing up. I've opened a python file, typed 1 + 1 and hit Ctrl+Enter and it doesn't seem to do anything.

eval is only for Clojure, ClojureScript, Javascript, and CSS right now

Evaling CSS? What is computed?

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by Sandman »

Every time a new version of LT playground gets released I feel like a kid in a candy store, looking for all the cool new stuff Chris and the rest of the team put in :). Awesome work, and it just keeps getting better. To be honest, since there weren't any updates in a while, I started having doubts about whether they'll be able to deliver, but I'm glad to see that the project is alive and well.

Judging by the comments I see that there's a lot of people who haven't yet heard of Light Table, which surprised me a bit because posts about LT frequently hit the front page of HN. If you're one of those people, you should take a look at their kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table

Finally, while there's a lot of people bemoaning the fact that some more popular languages (than Clojure) aren't supported out of the box, I, for one, am glad that somebody's developing such an awesome tool with Clojure in mind.

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by willismichael »

mej10 wrote: post #60
ibdknox wrote: post #4

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It is, but that's because we have to have a solid editing experience for the "simple" stuff before we can do the more interesting things. What good is it to have these awesome function oriented editors when you can't even modify a file efficiently? :) We use tabs as a simple way of wrapping up a context. In the future they will include all sorts of neat things - and they aren't limited in any way. If we want, we can…

Has anyone started work on an Emacs Lisp to ClojureScript compiler? :) Speaking of which, are Emacs keybindings coming any time soon?

https://github.com/hraberg/deuce

Re: A new Light Table experience

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Post by shurcooL »

ibdknox wrote: post #14
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 getti…

Chris, are you planning to submit a demo for LIVE 2013?
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