You make it sound a bit like this was a working solution already, while it seems to be a prototype at best, they are collecting funding right now: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/306316578/light-table.
I would love to be proven wrong, but I think given the state of the project, many people overexcite over it: some of the things proposed aren't new, just wrapped into a nice modern design (you could try to create a new "skin" or UI toolkit for some Smalltalk IDE for a similiar effect), while for the ones that would be new like the real-time evaluation or visualisation there is too little detail to say whether they are onto something or not - I am sure many people thought of such things in the past, but it is highly questionable to what extent those are actually doable, especially in an existing language like Clojure or JavaScript. I am not convinced if dropping 200,000$ at the thing will help with coming up with a solution if there is no decent set of ideas to begin with. I would personally be much more enthusiastic if the people behind the project at least outlined possible approaches they might take, before trying to collect money. Currently it sounds like they just plan to "hack" it until it handles a reasonable number of special cases, but tools that work only some of the time are favoured by few. I think we need good theoretical approaches to problems like this before we can make any progress in how the actual real tools work like. Cheers, Jarosław Rzeszótko 2012/4/24 Julian Leviston <[email protected]> > Thought this is worth a look as a next step after Brett Victor's work ( > http://vimeo.com/36579366) on UI for programmers... > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table > > We're still not quite "there" yet IMHO, but that's getting towards the > general direction... tie that in with a tile-script like language, and I > think we might have something really useful. > > Julian > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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