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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 ilsa on Monday December 04 2017, @05:30PM (5 children)

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Monday December 04 2017, @05:30PM (#605141)

    So, it's another clone of Sublime. Just like Atom, Visual Studio Code, and possibly others.

    Why?

    And what's with this fad of providing config options in barely documented JSON? Strikes me as just being too lazy to provide preference screens.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by LoRdTAW on Monday December 04 2017, @08:23PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Monday December 04 2017, @08:23PM (#605256) Journal

    And what's with this fad of providing config options in barely documented JSON? Strikes me as just being too lazy to provide preference screens.

    What are you like, 35? Go home and use your atari, Grandpa. The web browser is the computer you old geezer so it's all about web. And what's a documented?

  • (Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday December 05 2017, @02:02AM (2 children)

    by Marand (1081) on Tuesday December 05 2017, @02:02AM (#605468) Journal

    And what's with this fad of providing config options in barely documented JSON? Strikes me as just being too lazy to provide preference screens.

    You can blame emacs for starting that fad, because LT uses Clojure data structures (vectors, keywords, maps, etc.) in the same way that Emacs configuration is in s-expressions. There's no JSON to be found, unlike VSCode/Atom/etc. It only looks like "barely documented JSON" because you don't know anything about JSON or Clojure. :)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @08:48PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 05 2017, @08:48PM (#605808)

      Emacs at least has a dynamic customize UI for editing all of those settings. (Don't know if this does, but in emacs you don't have to edit all your settings in the raw lisp.)

      • (Score: 2) by Marand on Tuesday December 05 2017, @11:54PM

        by Marand (1081) on Tuesday December 05 2017, @11:54PM (#605897) Journal

        True, but it's also older than me, so it's had plenty of time to add things like that that it didn't have originally ;)

  • (Score: 2) by meustrus on Tuesday December 05 2017, @03:15PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Tuesday December 05 2017, @03:15PM (#605656)

    So, it's another clone of Sublime...Why?

    Because tools like Sublime are absolutely essential to software development. Without it, your choices for editing the little scripts that litter everything are:

    • An extremely bare Notepad-like environment: no line numbers, no auto-tabbing, no syntax highlighting, no tabs, and depending on how literally it is just `notepad.exe`, poor text encoding support and super limited undo buffer.
    • A really heavy IDE like Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, NetBeans, et al: takes a long time to start up, takes a ton of effort to configure correctly, and ultimately is just not designed for half the code you're going to write unless you have specifically limited yourself to enterprise Java...which is a really bad idea because you lose sight of your entry points.

    If Sublime was good enough, there would be no clones. But Sublime is closed-source and development is basically ended. It is not a living product like Atom, Visual Studio Code, LightTable, Notepad++, Geany, Editra, Lime, and others which can always be resurrected because they are all open source.

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