Yes I agreed. It is a very interesting approach. And I would love to hear an interview about this.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > I stumbled on this video of Code Bubbles in action: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k > > and was quite amazed. I'm not sure if its pragmatic to have so little > signal-to-noise when actually typing new code, but there's easy > solutions around this. Basically, your IDE is an effectively boundless > plane and the granularity of editing anything isn't per-file but per- > method/class, with the method/classes actual location just metadata, > with the IDE sorting it all into the appropriate files internally. > Navigating anywhere is primarily via a search-in-everything keyboard > box, and code appears in bubbles on this infinite plane. If you do > things like "visit declaration", the declaration opens, but in a new > bubble, visible together with the original code, instead of what most > current IDEs do, which is to open a new 'tab' and replace the view > entirely. It would also be an _amazing_ pair programming / code review > IDE if only you could all work in one plane, each having their own > little section in it, with you able to freely travel to someone else's > space. Unfortunately from the video it seems like all you can do is > email workspace layouts around, but that too could be addressed, I > guess. > > Later on in the video a debug session is started which really does > look amazing (for code editing I'm not entirely convinced yet, but > that looks like a fantastic debugger!) > > I know discussions about "Why are code editors still a glorified dumb > terminal" show up from time to time and this is certainly something > new. > > There isn't a download yet; more info is here: > http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/acb/codebubbles_site.htm > > I wouldn't mind seeing an interview of Andrew Bragdon about this :) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Johannes Thönes johannes.thoenes[at]googlemail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
