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The page is surprisingly uninformative. It took me good 5 minutes of looking for "download" button before realizing that it's an in-browser IDE. A big "Try it n
by kbart 10y ago
The page is surprisingly uninformative. It took me good 5 minutes of looking for "download" button before realizing that it's an in-browser IDE. A big "Try it now" button on top of the page would do wonders. A short, one sentence description of what it is would also be helpful, because "new kind of programming environment" reminds something from managers' meeting slides. Anyway, good job and thanks for making it available to us, I was looking for something like this few months back, I'll sure give it a try.
- Elrac 10y agoSimilar sentiment here. If I understood the not-very-explicit description correctly, it's an IDE for Javascript, and Javascript only, right? It's hard to believe, but somewhere in the world are developers using languages other than Javascript.
- helb 10y ago"We haven't launched support for other programming languages yet (rest assured it's on our roadmap)" "Our roadmap" is a link, but does not work… There however is a "Future" section near the page bottom, with screenshots that indicate support for Python, MIT Scheme, and something called Watlab.
- Elrac 10y agoI missed that! Thanks.
- athenot 10y agoIt seems that the author addressed that in the very first bullet point on that page: > Carbide is a new kind of programming environment which (as obligatory in this day and age): > • Requires no installation or setup (It's also followed by the mention of Javascript and all the browser screenshots reinforce the point.) The first analogy that came to my mind is that this is a similar environment to Wolfram Alpha but more focused on experimenting around with programming concepts.
- pawelk 10y agoYeah, I saw ⌘-Enter in the bottom-right of every example and immediately thought "too bad I can't even try this on my machine". But I kept scrolling and clicked one of the "Example Notebooks" half-expecting it'll download a project file or something but luckily it turned out to run the editor in my browser.
- ruler88 10y agoYea I can echo this statement