Light Table 0.7.0
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Light Table 0.7.0
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Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#2Anyone know of a good update to the discussion that happened here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874324 I'm curious how the concept of light table has stacked up against reality in the past year.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#3Anyone know of a good update to the discussion that happened here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874324 I'm curious how the concept of light table has stacked up against reality in the past year.
Out of curiosity I just downloaded it and tried it out on a JS project I am working on. To me the biggest and most interesting feature is the evaluation of code anywhere, so I decided to try that. Aside from it needing a browser to do anything with JS I noticed that it generated a bunch of errors when I tried to evaluate a block of code. Maybe it is awesome for clojure, but for JS I think it has a long way to go. Back to webstorm for me.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#4Anyone know of a good update to the discussion that happened here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3874324 I'm curious how the concept of light table has stacked up against reality in the past year.
Out of curiosity I just downloaded it and tried it out on a JS project I am working on. To me the biggest and most interesting feature is the evaluation of code anywhere, so I decided to try that. Aside from it needing a browser to do anything with JS I noticed that it generated a bunch of errors when I tried to evaluate a block of code. Maybe it is awesome for clojure, but for JS I think it has a long way to go. Bac…
> ...it generated a bunch of errors...
What errors did you get? Was it connected to a page that had your code loaded already?
> Aside from it needing a browser to do anything with JS...
If you eval a html file it will open it in a local webkit tab. You can then use that connection to eval js. A lot of the js tooling works better with the local connection too since it can directly hook into the devtools instead of having to send json over a websocket.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#5Well this is a pleasant surprise. I was rather disappointed by the last announcement as I felt Light Table was a nice start and was heading in a great direction. As one of the KS backers, I'm glad to see the effort was put in to make it easy for the community to keep it going.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#6Good news! I'm going to switch from Emacs some of the time, and hopefully 100% eventually. The thing that bugged me was how uneven the way editor would react in some cases. For me it didn't have the reliability I need. I was interested in the fundamentals and found underneath is code-mirror. I thought eventually all code-editing should move into a browser, but isn't quite there yet. Hopefully this will move to 1.0 and be a full emacs replacement.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#7I've considered using Light Table for a while but the fact that there isn't a simple way to install it on Linux (either via apt or another package manager or a packaged version like a deb/rpm) keeps me from bothering.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#8Very nice. I hope this project keeps living. I use it for all my clojure dev and sometimes just as a editor. I rarly use the repl anymore, I just build up function inside the editor. The only thing that hinders this is that the function output should be pritty printed but there is some technical problem with that. If this would happen, I would not use the console much anymore.
The paredit is nice enougth to make working with clojure nicer then working with other language syntaxes.
Overall I really like it because I feel like its the way a IDE should be even if its lacking features, the architecture is nice.
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#9What issue could possibly exist for using a GPL editor? It's not being shipped from a company...
Re: Light Table 0.7.0
#10What issue could possibly exist for using a GPL editor? It's not being shipped from a company...
I know, I was surprised as well. And if there are legitimate issues, isn't this exactly the dual-licensing opportunity that open source projects dream of?