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Light Table needs a community
I really want to get into Light Table (http://www.lighttable.com/), but even after 3 days of being interested in Light Table, I barely figured out how to usy any of its magical features. I need a place to ask questions, I need great documentation, I need many many many screencasts showcasing its features. What I need is a community.
If you're a lighttable user, and you already know how to use it, please join a few communities, maybe answer a question per week, just help people out. Here are some communities that need more people:
The subreddit, www.reddit.com/r/lighttable (this subreddit is deserted, here I was, thinking the Sublime Text one was deserted...)
The google discussion group, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/light-table-discussion
Join the IRC at #lighttable on irc.freenode.net
If you're a passionate light-table user, please spend some time on improving the documentation!
If you wrote a plugin, please write a blog post or make a screencast on how you did it, or live-stream the making-of!
If you really like a feature, write an article, write a blog post, anything!
Please write some blog posts, please write articles. This editor has so many hidden features I can't figure out because no-one is talking about them.
If you don't have the time to write blog posts, or if you're at work and you're not allowed to stream, or anything else, even a simple tweet will spread the love <3
Light-table would be a revolutionary IDE if only it had a community. Chris (the author of light-table) has the right idea of what light-table should be, because it's based on a talk that changed the way Chris, I and many others think about programming. Chris however, made a crucial mistake from the very beginning of the project, he never invested in a community.
The talk is available here, http://vimeo.com/36579366
- zindlerb 12y agoThank you for posting this. I use Light Table on a daily basis, but don't participate in the community. This is good motivation for me to get more involved. If you have any questions here feel free to ask!
- KobaQ 12y ago> Light-table would be a revolutionary IDE if only it had a community. Documentation?
- auganov 12y agoI wish they just focused on being the new Emacs. Now it's in an awkward state where it's not Emacs enough for Emacs people but weird enough [in an emacs way] for others.