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Light Table - A Next-Generation Open-Source and Customizable IDE

posted by Fnord666 on Monday December 04 2017, @04:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-is-it-round dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Light Table is a free, customizable, functional, and open-source IDE with a modern User Interface, plugin support, command pane, and connection manager

I'll stick with (g)vim personally but there's probably a few of you who'll find this interesting enough, if only to rag on it in the comments.

Source: https://www.fossmint.com/light-table-next-generation-open-source-ide-editor/

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  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Monday December 04 2017, @03:16PM (1 child)

    by meustrus (4961) on Monday December 04 2017, @03:16PM (#605078)

    Node is just a VM like the Java VM. It's JavaScript that sucks. Although let's not be unfair to Java - the JVM is much better than the Node environment. Which raises the question of why, if you're writing Clojure, you don't just compile to the JVM instead of Node.

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  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:55AM

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday December 05 2017, @01:55AM (#605464) Journal

    Which raises the question of why, if you're writing Clojure, you don't just compile to the JVM instead of Node.

    Start up time, UI choices. Java isn't popular for GUI applications because using the JVM means (usually) Swing or (less commonly) JavaFX. Also, for whatever reason, ClojureScript has a noticeably faster start-up time than Clojure on the JVM, which is important for some things.

    That said, I'd still rather use JVM Clojure. Sure, it's a good bit slower to start by default, but you can tune the start time quite a bit, and I'd rather deal with JFX or Swing than the insane node and JS ecosystems.