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Hi Chris, Instarepl is an awesome idea. If someone were to implement an insta-repl as an IntelliJ plugin, or an emacs plugin, what remaining advantages would
by dustingetz 13y ago
Hi Chris,
Instarepl is an awesome idea.
If someone were to implement an insta-repl as an IntelliJ plugin, or an emacs plugin, what remaining advantages would LT have? Is there something about the architecture of existing IDEs that is incompatible with an insta-repl?
Say I'm writing a medium size webapp, like, say, Gmail, in clojure + clojurescript. I don't understand how integrating my app into LT is going to 10x my productivity, outside of instarepl. Or being able to on-the-fly extend my IDE. Emacs can do that, and its not exactly a feature i can't live without.
It just seems like all the things you're talking about on the list, like [commands, settings, threading models, plugins, UX] are previously solved problems.
- danneu 13y agoLightTable's trajectory is a bit different than what you're going to get with a monolthic IDE and the Clojure plugin that does its best to wrestle with the IDE. I also don't think LightTable's core offering is a huge boost in raw productivity unless your workflow right now is notepad.exe and manual repl reloads. - Just to point out two features from the post: "watchers" (live runtime feedback) and one big extensible datastructure.