This should not have been posted as a Show HN. Show HN is for
something that people can actually try. Fundraisers and teaser pages are ruled out in the rules: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html</a>.<p>(We've taken Show HN belatedly out of the title above.)
This looks great, and could be a great tool to help some front-end developers.<p>However, I must say, it's 2019, if you call yourself a front-end developer, and you do not know flexbox and grid - you are greatly missing out on an amazing radical change in how you think about and design your layouts. There really is no excuse for not knowing this stuff, especially with all the great resources out there to help you learn.<p>Flexbox Zombies basically changed my life. It taught me the possibilities, and now I know them by hand. <a href="https://mastery.games/p/flexbox-zombies" rel="nofollow">https://mastery.games/p/flexbox-zombies</a><p>The same company has a paid game to learn about the grid (<a href="https://gridcritters.com/" rel="nofollow">https://gridcritters.com/</a>), but I came across the resources below and did not buy it.<p>Flexbox Froggy and Grid Garden are both free, not gated by an email signup, and very high quality. You and everyone on your team should do them, even if you think you know them well. It will help with reinforcement.<p>- <a href="https://flexboxfroggy.com/" rel="nofollow">https://flexboxfroggy.com/</a>
- <a href="https://cssgridgarden.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cssgridgarden.com/</a><p>I think Gimli is an amazing tool, and I might even buy it when it comes out. But please, do yourself and your team a favor - learn the tools by hand first. If you wrote a float at all this year, this post goes out to you.
You might want to make the Kickstarter campaign more prominent - use color, make it bigger and part of the main content instead of just part of the top bar.<p>Anyway, as a mostly backend and native / non-web person who occasionally has to do front-end development, this looks like a very useful tool! Something like this might convince me to start using VSCode for web dev over vim.
Is this figma/sketch in vscode ? I would pay for this.<p>Asian developers are Linux based generally - so it's hard to adopt Mac based tools (because of cost,etc).
This would be a brilliant way.
Hey, this looks really neat! I have a few questions though.<p>1. If I use this tool, can I still collaborate with people that don't have it? This might be a concern to maintainers of free/open source projects who would like to use Gimli for themselves but not force others to use proprietary tools (which, I assume, Gimli falls under) when editing the project's source.<p>2. How does this handle components (when using a framework) that aren't presentational (like container components in React/Redux apps that subscribe to the store and pass data on)? Will you just be able to "drag them in" like visual components? Will there be an ergonomic way to add them into the tree later? (So that the designer can, for example, just focus on the visual aspect, then pass it on to a developer who adds the containers)
I don’t do much front end work these days and won’t be for awhile, but this looks exciting.<p>Hopefully, you can find a way to monetize it.<p>If it ends up being usable, even as a beta, I will be donating.
Very cool demo. Great idea to build on top of VSCode distribution channel/platform, but I'm curious on how you plan on enforcing payment?<p>edit: Also curious how you'll be implementing "find source" - just doing a string lookup for id/classname/attibutes? Will you be able to handle generated identifiers, e.g. css modules classnames?
You might want to consider a name change. Gimli has already been used for a cryptographic algorithm from a pretty famous team of cryptographers[1], so your SEO might take a hit by using that name.<p>[1]: <a href="https://gimli.cr.yp.to/" rel="nofollow">https://gimli.cr.yp.to/</a>