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I love what Chris is doing, but I have yet to understand what Light Table does differently from say Emacs's own lisp evaluation mechanism.
by why-el 14y ago
I love what Chris is doing, but I have yet to understand what Light Table does differently from say Emacs's own lisp evaluation mechanism.
- gtrak 14y agoMy opinion is it's time for a UI-driven developer framework with the hackable spirit of Emacs. I hope LT goes in this direction.
- nickik 14y agoOne diffrence is these data flow stuff threw the code. I have not seen that anywhere else. There are some otherthing that are diffrent. The way they want to handle files for example. I would say that Light Table is nothing revolutionary but it is long awaited evolutionary. Finally a modern envoierment that is really easibly extensible. Emacs is great but you have to admit that it is truly aged. Things like eclipse are diffrent from these dynamic smalltalk IDEs that LT trieds to be like (without having the same weaknesses).
- tree_of_item 14y agoAt the very least, Emacs + WebKit would be a cool project. Emacs is great but one thing it doesn't have is bindings to modern graphics libraries. Can you imagine what people could do with that kind of lisp environment + a canvas element?