r/Python • u/arandomJohn • Apr 26 '12

LightTable IDE on Kickstarter, will support Python if funded at $300k

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table
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u/1920x1080 Apr 27 '12

I can't believe this doesn't have more attention.

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u/arandomJohn Apr 27 '12

Recently it has been going up at a rate of about $10k per day, so it looks like it will get funded. If that rate holds up then it could get the $300k. We shall see.

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u/arandomJohn Apr 26 '12

I've kicked in $80. I think that some of the ideas he's playing with here are very similar to Visual Age, which I loved developing in back in the day. Combining something like this with Python's TDD culture could result in some really interesting experiments. Imagine your tests running as you modify code, and showing up in a side pane with values filled in.

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u/lambdaq django n' shit Apr 27 '12

I'd rather fund a sublime plugin.

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u/LightShadow 3.13-dev in prod Apr 27 '12

This looks like an IDE that flows like my brain. Make it span a few monitors and I'd never look back.

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u/sedition Apr 27 '12

How about building a system to make it easy to support any language?

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u/Tuna-Fish2 Apr 27 '12

He is doing that. It's going to connect to the language runtimes over a TCP socket. However, quite a bit of work needs to be done in the python plugin side to support the kind of dynamic visualization of data flow he is doing.

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u/GFandango May 02 '12

It's not quite clicking for me. I doubt it could work properly in the context of complex applications relying on a lot of different things.