Light Table a year ago

http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/04/12/light-table-survey-results/

by ibdknox • 13 years ago

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ibdknox6• 13 years ago

The HN community has been especially supportive. Thanks guys - I hope you'll stick with us. There's a lot of awesome stuff coming.

mitchi• 13 years ago

I'm interested in ClojureScript development. Will LightTable support it out of the box just like it supports Clojure?

ibdknox6• 13 years ago

it already does :) It's a little harder than it should be right now, though. Basically the steps are:

1) Open your html file

2) run the `connect to browser command` and copy the script tag

3) insert script tag into your html file

4) bring up your page in the browser (it has to have the output of lein-cljsbuild on it to get the initial cljs dependencies and such)

5) open a cljs file

6) eval an expression with cmd/ctrl+enter

7) select the browser instead of LightTable-UI

This process will be getting much simpler in the next release. :)

rustc• 13 years ago

Hey Chris,

I love the idea of Light Table.

I'm sorry if I missed a post, but when do you plan on officially releasing the source code to the public? I'd really like to play with it.

ibdknox6• 13 years ago

I don't have an exact date, but it will happen once the beta goes public and the plugin architecture is available :)

pnathan• 13 years ago

Hey Chris, it's wonderful seeing the innovation and awesomeness that Light Table is bringing to the scene.

JustARandomGuy• 13 years ago

Chris,

As a donator in the Light Table Kickstarter, I'm surprised that its already been a year. You've done some great work on this, I'm currently using Light Table right now to do some light JS work. Keep it up!

JPKab• 13 years ago

Thank you for building this. I'm learning Clojure right now, and it is my first foray into functional programming (outside of using map type functions in Python, JS, etc).

1) Light Table makes Clojure's (and really Lisp's) beauty jump out at me.

2) It is a true pleasure to use the InstaRepl, and I'm looking forward to doing more with it as I learn to apply Clojure's basics to doing stuff in my day to day job.

I frickin love this thing.

adambard3• 13 years ago

One aspect of Light Table that I find really cool, that I haven't seen discussed, is its utility to people who are just learning to program.

I think its (current, anyhow) relative simplicity and instant feedback make it a really amazing tool for education. I think the difficulty and foreignness of setting up your stack is one of the things that makes programming seem foreign and difficult to people, but Light Table makes it look cool and easy.

Or maybe it doesn't, I can't tell. I've been doing this too long, I think. But I'd love to see someone in a position to try Light Table for educational purposes do so and report back.

phloxicon• 13 years ago

I really like this product and hope other IDEs can take some lessons from it. I've read a few of your posts and I remember you mentioning that you use Node.js. Is there a page that talks more about the technologies used to build Light Table?

jptman• 13 years ago

I really hope you see this -> Please please create a 10 min screencast showing how to use light table. May be I'm being utterly dumb and can't find this anywhere, but I've looked for a simple tutorial for Light Table and have not found it. I've downloaded Light Table and haven't figured out how to use it. I actually use Lein for clojurescript development because I could find enough documentation on it to get it running, while I am assuming Light Table is supposed to be much easier to use.

NuZZ• 13 years ago

I support this idea; but I think said cast should be made when light table is more consumer-ready persay. Perhaps when the dev is satisfied with it being a sublime-text legitimate rival.

ep103• 13 years ago

I see the alpha is available.

Can I find a how-to-use video or blog post somewhere?

aperrien• 13 years ago

I'm very impressed with what I've seen from this project, and I'm truly sorry I missed it's Kickstarter. However, I'd still like to contribute; is there a way to still donate? Folding money into paper airplanes and throwing it in your direction doesn't seem like it would be effective.

boggzPit• 13 years ago

When does Ruby gets supported?

efnx• 13 years ago

I'd like to know when we can expect a documented language plugin API.

wojonstech• 13 years ago

What an amazing project that you have. I am blown away watched the video and installed it right away

fafner• 13 years ago

Somebody is currently implementing something similar in Emacs for Emacs Lisp: https://github.com/Fuco1/litable

o0-0o• 13 years ago

FYI, unreadable on a galaxy nexus.

nnq• 13 years ago

not that is matters, but will say this again: how about making http://www.lighttable.com/ readable/usable on something else than 1280px+ screens in a room with optimally tweaked ambiental lighting! Lots of peoples read websites on cheap Android tablets, outside, in full sunlight, you know! (The same used to apply to chris-granger.com and thankfully it's been fixed, but the design-mantra for the whole Lighttable project still seems to be "ugly grays, bad contrast and flat-everything to the point of annoying your eyes out"!)

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