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Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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The JetBrains suite of IDEs, all built on the same platform, support these and much more (Java, Python, Ruby, Scala, ...). With the exception of AppCode (for iOS) you can also get them all in the main release IDEA with relevant plugins.

JetBrains is nice, but we try to avoid proprietary tools when we can.

Yeah, the not invented here syndrome.

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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They never really needed React in the first place, because React doesn't solve THEIR problem. Their problem is so specific to text editors: how do you get hundreds of lines of hundreds of rich-text characters to render as fast as possible? In terms of game engines: React is comparable to the occlusion culling capabilities of a 3D game engine (render less), where Atom was in search of the fastest way for the graphics…

Having implemented a code editor, I can assure you that not re-rendering lines and blocks of code is also a worthy effort. It probably just doesn't fit into react's incremental computation model yet?

Yeah, that's the reason why they tried React I guess. But as far as I can tell they kept the should-update-or-not procedures they implemented specifically FOR React. So what they removed wasn't the concept of React, just the library as their DOM rendering implementation.

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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Facebook to the right, Stallman to the left. When I write code, I use tools written by Stallman. When I communicate with friends and family, I use Facebook. There is no contradiction here: they are both useful, and useful is the yardstick by which reality judges memes.

He is not talking about anything remotely related to what you are talking about. He just wants to avoid having to register to yet another site.

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Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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We will all be coding in Rust on Rails by then.

never heard this one before, thanks for the laugh.

I just tried to think of a ridiculous combination of techs to combine. I didn't realize the hilarious double meaning of it until after I got some upvotes. Sounds like a great April fools project to share.

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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How is this open-source? Right now this is appears to be no-source.

If the code exists and is derived from Atom, it's MIT licensed. Being pedantic, they don't need to release it in the open for it to be open source - everyone who has access to the code may choose to release it, but it's not mandatory.

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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So where's the download? Where's the source? I don't want to have to join a Facebook group for updates.

There was a brief moment where I thought that I could at least trust Faceboook's open source offering and I was excited about React. Then I read about the sneaky PATENTS license in the other thread here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9271246

So now I'm going back to ignoring anything that Facebook puts out there.

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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> atom nope, been there done that. It's cumbersome and laggy, which is a major pitfall for me, I like the responsiveness of sublime text.

I agree, I wish Sublime was an open-source editor so that custom editors can be built on top of it.

You might be interested in LimeText http://limetext.org/

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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How is this open-source? Right now this is appears to be no-source.

If the code exists and is derived from Atom, it's MIT licensed. Being pedantic, they don't need to release it in the open for it to be open source - everyone who has access to the code may choose to release it, but it's not mandatory.

MIT is not copyleft so not even pedantry will save it. I.e. under MIT they can ship a binary blob and they only need to include the MIT license and a notice.

Re: Nuclide: An open-source IDE for React Native

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If the code exists and is derived from Atom, it's MIT licensed. Being pedantic, they don't need to release it in the open for it to be open source - everyone who has access to the code may choose to release it, but it's not mandatory.

MIT is not copyleft so not even pedantry will save it. I.e. under MIT they can ship a binary blob and they only need to include the MIT license and a notice.

copyleft != open source. They don't even need to publish a binary blob, they can use the code internally. Yet the original project is still considered FLOSS.
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