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I wonder what the fad-editor in LightTable's place will be called in a few years?
by username223 13y ago
I wonder what the fad-editor in LightTable's place will be called in a few years?
- willismichael 13y agoWhat was it a few years ago? I'm going to guess that whatever the answer is, it didn't have anywhere near the extension capability of either Emacs or LightTable.
- swah 13y agoOnly Textmate then ST2. Other editors like Scite, Notepad++, Ultraedit have huge amount of users but they aren't passionate about the subject...
- username223 13y agoA few years ago I would have gone with Sublime, and TextMate before that. I haven't tried extending LT, so I don't know how easy that is for a mere user. Both Emacs and Eclipse are very extensible, but only the former provides a smooth path to go from tweaking a few config variables and defining some macros, to writing serious extensions. I gather LT is mostly in ClojureScript (?), which suggests it's more like the former, but I would have to spend more time with it to say for sure. I played with it a bit, and it looks pretty, but it's not aimed at the projects I'm dealing with now.
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- squidsoup 13y agoThat's pretty uncharitable to LightTable which is doing a number of things differently. Inline evaluation, and great support for ClojureScript with a connected repl to name a few.
- Grue3 13y agoOk, what would be the next fad Javascript wrapper be called in a few years? (does anyone remember CoffeeScript?)