Light Table - a new IDE concept
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Light Table - a new IDE concept
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#2Have you released the prototype or do you plan to? I cannot seem to find it on your GitHub account.
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#3This is pretty exciting stuff. IIRC ibdknox used to work on Visual Studio when he was at Microsoft.
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#4Have you released the prototype or do you plan to? I cannot seem to find it on your GitHub account.
I don't see the code out there, but here is his github: https://github.com/ibdknox
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#5Looks really interesting, would be great to have something like this for the web. I wonder how interested the author of Sublime Text would be in this as he seems to be very responsive with development, perhaps worth reaching out to him.
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#7This is exciting! We wouldn't be coding the same way in 50 years - I hope what we do now will be compared to punch cards of early computing by then.
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#8I can't get my hands on this soon enough. It makes so much sense: we're moving away from the files and folders metaphor everywhere, so why not in the IDE too?
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#9This is pretty exciting stuff. IIRC ibdknox used to work on Visual Studio when he was at Microsoft.
I did indeed. I used to be the Program Manager for C# and VB in the IDE. :)
A number of the ideas presented here started brewing during my time there, but it took me a bit to figure out what the overall abstraction should be. I really love the drafting table parallel - it's especially interesting when you start thinking about what we can do with touch...
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#10I wasn't really sure of all of the benifits, then I saw the picture of the video game making example and it dawned on me... make it happen! I'm throwing money at my screen but nothing is happening.