Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4119944

by adrusi • 14 years ago

6 9 14 years ago

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This is assuming you didn't already claim a copy during the kickstarter. I am a vim user, and lightroom seems more IDE like than I'm used to, but it also seems like the best IDE-like environment I've seen. I'm interested how much of HN is actually interested enough to buy it.

jameswyse• 14 years ago

I backed it on Kickstarter, but there's no way to say until I get my hands on a copy. I'm actually pretty happy with sublime text 2 just now.

wmf• 14 years ago

Light Table. I bought Lightroom years ago. :-)

adrusi• 14 years ago

fixed, thanks :)

gexla• 14 years ago

As with any release of something new, we would probably at least need to wait for it to stabilize and for useful community add-ons to be created before we could be as productive as we are with our other tools. I won't even look at it until I hear about it as much as I have heard of Sublime text 2 (as a useful tool as opposed to a hyped up Kickstarter project.)

Toph• 14 years ago

I was under the impression it was going to remain open source unless terms have changed. On their Kickstarter page under FAQ, that seems to be the case still.

That said, its too early to tell.

factorialboy• 14 years ago

I'll check out a free trial to see if its a serious replacement for my IntelliJ IDEA based dev setup.

Making a video is one thing, delivering on the product is another. But I do support their concept and wish them my best.

brandoncordell• 14 years ago

I don't think anything can pull me away from Vim. Some of it looks nice, but I don't think it would be much use to me. I'll have to wait until I actually get my hands on it though.

shortfold• 14 years ago

simply no

a_macgregor• 14 years ago

Depends, if they can offer the same amount of features and plugins than SublimeText2 then yes.

Ask HN: Will you buy Lighttable when it's released?

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