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LightTable is proprietary software. Please use Emacs instead.
by davexunit 13y ago
LightTable is proprietary software. Please use Emacs instead.
- samatman 13y agoThe facts are more complex. "I'm a firm believer in open source software and open source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table will be built on top of the technologies that are freely available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed source. At some level, this is an experiment in how open source and business can mix - it will be educational for us all." http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers/ http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/15/light-tables-numbers... I take this promise in good faith, unless I see reason to believe it will be broken.
- davexunit 13y agoI don't have high hopes. 1) He's not working in the open, he just says "I will free it, honest." Maybe he'll go through with it, but as of now he's distributing proprietary software. 2) He says that some of the plugins will be nonfree. We know that through Emacs that the plugins are essentially everything. Nonfree plugins means a nonfree editor. I'll be sticking with Emacs. Emacs is still improving. There is a project to replace the existing ELisp VM with GNU Guile, which will improve performance and bring many new features, such as an FFI and threading.
- samatman 13y agoI will bet you a bitcoin that Light Table is released under an OS license before the ELisp VM is replaced with Guile. Deal? If Emacs was what I wanted, I'd have started using it ten years ago. Remember, editors are religion; please be polite.