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Reminds me of that concept for a code editor UI with bubbles[1]. If the user interfaces let me visually organize the code in a way that makes sense, then the wa
by lhorie 17y ago
Reminds me of that concept for a code editor UI with bubbles[1]. If the user interfaces let me visually organize the code in a way that makes sense, then the way the data is saved on disk doesn't really matter anymore.
[1] http://geekswithblogs.net/andrewbrust/archive/2010/03/12/code-bubbles-disruption-comes-to-the-ide.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/andrewbrust/archive/2010/03/12/cod...
On the flip side, I guess there's the problem of being locked to the applications
- Psyonic 17y agoI took a look at it. It seems like a Smalltalk IDE for java... does it offer innovations besides that?
- lhorie 17y agoI don't know what is or is not innovative about this particular editor concept, I just pointed out that it's more useful to be able to see things like procedural flow without having other things cluttering the screen just because they happen to be in the same files as what you're interested in at a given point in time. Another nice example of the file-centric approach failing is Photoshop comps. It's a lot easier to just have an interface where I can quickly toggle between various comps in a single project file than it is to have two dozen slightly different files, each representing one comp.