Light Table 0.4 released • Hacker News Board

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by samatman » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

i-blis wrote: post #56

This is an impressive release. They move forwards at an amazing pace. I had already been using LT 0.3.9 almost exclusively for my ongoing Clojure projects during the last month, switching back to Emacs only for heavy editing tasks. I was really missing but the ability to (de-/re-)connect to a given client, which 0.4.0 provides. In my opinion LT is not just a code editor (editing features are pretty poor yet indeed) b…

I would say, rather, that it is not a mature code editor. It aims in all seriousness to do anything we expect a code editor to do, and I have every reason to think the project will succeed.

Chris is focusing on providing new functionality; the expected stuff can and should come later.

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by garg » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

sravfeyn wrote: post #52

garg wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can set the environment variables in windows 7 by right clicking Computer then click on properties > Advances system settings (on the left), and then click on Environment Variables. Scroll down in the System Variables box, and edit Path. Add ;C:\ at the very end.

I had done that. Probably I have to restart the system to have Light Table understand the updated PATH.

I only had to restart Light Table after adding the path to python in the path envvar.

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by samatman » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

rayiner wrote: post #43

ibdknox wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People still use common lisp? ducks In all seriousness, the plugin architecture will certainly allow for exactly that to happen. If you're interested in trying your hand at adding CL, I know a guy who could probably sneak you into the beta when it turns private ;)

I'll use Clojure when it gets LOOP.

Well here's where you might start: https://github.com/tayssir/cl-loop

Although the community seems to prefer the port of Iterate: https://github.com/nathell/clj-iter

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

#64

Post by piranha » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

sravfeyn wrote: post #52

garg wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can set the environment variables in windows 7 by right clicking Computer then click on properties > Advances system settings (on the left), and then click on Environment Variables. Scroll down in the System Variables box, and edit Path. Add ;C:\ at the very end.

I had done that. Probably I have to restart the system to have Light Table understand the updated PATH.

Logout/login is enough.

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by yen223 » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

cnp wrote: post #50

Awesome... but PLEASE ditch that vertical side menu. It's one of the worst UX decisions I've ever seen and literally gives the user a headache. Pleaseeeeeee

I like the vertical side menu. It saves valuable horizontal space, and adds a touch of class too.

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by bqst » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

sarnowski wrote: post #58

Doesn't work with Ubuntu 13.04 :/ Binary is linked to libudev.0 but Ubuntu now uses libudev.1 Any chance me, as a non-tester and interested person, gets a "fix" for that? edit: linking 1 to 0 works so far, but please consider a migration to new version - e.g. chrome did the same some time ago ago[0]. [0] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...

Thanks !

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by nefasti » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

ibdknox wrote: post #7

rayiner wrote: post #2

It would be great to get a common lisp supported in Light Table...

People still use common lisp? ducks In all seriousness, the plugin architecture will certainly allow for exactly that to happen. If you're interested in trying your hand at adding CL, I know a guy who could probably sneak you into the beta when it turns private ;)

If you need someone to try a hand in supporting ruby, give me a hit, would gladly try to accomplish it.

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by i-blis » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

samatman wrote: post #61

i-blis wrote: post #56

This is an impressive release. They move forwards at an amazing pace. I had already been using LT 0.3.9 almost exclusively for my ongoing Clojure projects during the last month, switching back to Emacs only for heavy editing tasks. I was really missing but the ability to (de-/re-)connect to a given client, which 0.4.0 provides. In my opinion LT is not just a code editor (editing features are pretty poor yet indeed) b…

I would say, rather, that it is not a mature code editor. It aims in all seriousness to do anything we expect a code editor to do, and I have every reason to think the project will succeed. Chris is focusing on providing new functionality; the expected stuff can and should come later.

This is my understanding too. (This is why I said yet).

I am expecting a lot from the forthcoming plugin system. It will be nice to be able to script LT in ClojureScript (the language in which LT is mostly developed).

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by jspiral » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

I'm interested in writing a simple rest API using compojure as a learning exercise. Can anyone experienced give an outline of what a reasonable workflow would be to do this using light table? I see that light table can "connect" to my project.clj...

Re: Light Table 0.4 released

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Post by dtwwtd » Tue, Apr 30, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

This is awesome, congrats on the release.

I'm very excited with the Python integration. I'm going to try doing some web development with Light Table now. One thing that would be very handy would be support for virtualenvs or requirements files to integrate into workspaces so that we can work on projects without installing all dependancies globally.