Thanks to everyone:<p><a href="http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/06/01/45-days-later/" rel="nofollow">http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/06/01/45-days-later/</a>
I have my own ideas about how to do this, and I'm glad someone is moving in this direction, but I must ask, is this a stepping stone in a grander vision? Enemies of software development today are:<p>1. Code Comprehension: Can new people quickly understand a complex code base enough to implement significant features.
2. Fault Diagnosis: When is the last time you spent less than 50% of a project's time on debugging?
3. Code Transformation: Have you ever actually tried to factor a mega-function into separate functions? How about creating a set of concrete classes when you realize that your hierarchy abstraction breaks down under new requirements. Now do all that without introducing new bugs.<p>These are the hard problems, and it excites me that people are thinking about how to solve them. This tool will not solve all those problems, and maybe one tool shouldn't, but nevertheless I hope people will start thinking about the entire development process and how to improve all the tools of our industry.
It's really exciting to see a great development tool. While I love vim and will passionately fight for it's place as the best 'text editor'. I readily recognize it's faults as a development environment.<p>All the other tools I've seen up to this point seem to be a text editor with plugins or additional components stacked on top. Even IDEs seem to follow this pattern and are development tools built on a text editor.<p>It is nice to see a holistic approach to designing development environment from the ground up. To me light table looks to be the first real development environment as opposed to an improvement.
Glad I got in when a license was $15. If there's one feature I'd like in the future, it's extensibility. Let dev communities write their own plugins for languages, so it doesn't all fall on Granger's lap.
They say:<p>"Ultimately the goal of the platform is to be a highly extensible work surface"<p>Still they needed 100k for adding Python support?<p>I guess ruby/scala support is not happening anytime soon.