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Great work, and I can't wait for plugins to arrive! This should be the next great text-editor once it's open-sourced - I'm too young to bother with vim/emacs,

Great work, and I can't wait for plugins to arrive! This should be the next great text-editor once it's open-sourced - I'm too young to bother with vim/emacs, and a bit too poor to buy Sublime Text, great though it is! The fact that it's written in Clojure(script) makes me want to dive into the source, and find out how a modern desktop application is built using a Lisp.

RBerenguel 13y ago
I wonder how young is too young for emacs/vim
- baxter001 13y ago
  For Emacs your span has to be wide enough.
  - RBerenguel 13y ago
    Hmmm what?
    - bricestacey 13y ago
      He means size of hands. Children with smaller hands may have trouble with some key combinations.
      - RBerenguel 13y ago
        Thanks. I would have never guessed. Even as a child I had big hands, so... :)
- Paradigma11 13y ago
  Especially since you need to be young to have any chance to get a positive return of investment with emacs.
  - RBerenguel 13y ago
    I started using it (consistently, all day) with ~22 after learning vi and emacs during my degree (that's 8 years ago). I stuck with emacs for the PhD and now for work, but I'm using evil lately to get text objects. I don't think emacs or vim are that hard, you get used pretty quick to anything you do all day long (I'm now using Acme to write go, as an example of new things)
Mikeb85 13y ago
It's basically a desktop webkit application that happens to be written in Clojure-script (which gets compiled to Javascript). A modern IDE written entirely in Clojure would be Clooj (which IS open-source).
- graue 13y ago
  Huh, hadn't heard of Clooj. Another Clojure IDE written in Clojure is Nightcode: http://nightcode.info/ http://nightcode.info/ It's open source under the Unlicense, but very young — even the early releases of Light Table may be more polished at this point. On the other hand, it has Paredit mode, which is still "coming soon" for Light Table :)
canthonytucci 13y ago
> I'm too young to bother with vim/emacs, What does this mean? The younger the better, there's quite a bit to learn about using both. If you mean they're too "Old-school" as in there are a lot of keyboard commands to learn to use them effectively...give them a try, you might find after a while that ctrl-n really is easier than moving all the way over to the down arrow key when you're in the zone and building something.
kmf 13y ago
Never too young! Most editors look flashy next to Vim, but switching to a terminal-based editor towards the beginning of my development learning helped my learning gains immensely. Give it a try, you'd be surprised!

RBerenguel 13y ago

I wonder how young is too young for emacs/vim

baxter001 13y ago
For Emacs your span has to be wide enough.
- RBerenguel 13y ago
  Hmmm what?
  - bricestacey 13y ago
    He means size of hands. Children with smaller hands may have trouble with some key combinations.
    - RBerenguel 13y ago
      Thanks. I would have never guessed. Even as a child I had big hands, so... :)
Paradigma11 13y ago
Especially since you need to be young to have any chance to get a positive return of investment with emacs.
- RBerenguel 13y ago
  I started using it (consistently, all day) with ~22 after learning vi and emacs during my degree (that's 8 years ago). I stuck with emacs for the PhD and now for work, but I'm using evil lately to get text objects. I don't think emacs or vim are that hard, you get used pretty quick to anything you do all day long (I'm now using Acme to write go, as an example of new things)

Mikeb85 13y ago

It's basically a desktop webkit application that happens to be written in Clojure-script (which gets compiled to Javascript). A modern IDE written entirely in Clojure would be Clooj (which IS open-source).

graue 13y ago
Huh, hadn't heard of Clooj. Another Clojure IDE written in Clojure is Nightcode: http://nightcode.info/ http://nightcode.info/ It's open source under the Unlicense, but very young — even the early releases of Light Table may be more polished at this point. On the other hand, it has Paredit mode, which is still "coming soon" for Light Table :)

canthonytucci 13y ago

> I'm too young to bother with vim/emacs, What does this mean? The younger the better, there's quite a bit to learn about using both. If you mean they're too "Old-school" as in there are a lot of keyboard commands to learn to use them effectively...give them a try, you might find after a while that ctrl-n really is easier than moving all the way over to the down arrow key when you're in the zone and building something.

kmf 13y ago

Never too young! Most editors look flashy next to Vim, but switching to a terminal-based editor towards the beginning of my development learning helped my learning gains immensely. Give it a try, you'd be surprised!