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Light Table: A New Spin on the IDE
New submitter omar.sahal writes "Bret Victor demoed the idea of instant feedback on your code. ... Allowing the programmer to instantly see what his program is doing. Chris Granger has turned this novel idea into Light Table — a new IDE designed to make use of Victor's insights."
The screenshots make this look like it could be genuinely useful — like a much fancier and more functional combination of features from SLIME and Speedbar. There's a Google group for those wanting to track development. There's no code yet, but source is promised: "I can guarantee you that Light Table will be built on top of the technologies that are freely available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched, while some of the plugins may remained closed source."
Ah, static typing, that would be first year high school. Well done. Is your diploma mounted in your bedroom?
You might want to try intelligent functions. Functions with multiple optional parameters, and functions that take entire structures, consider environmental parameters, and maybe, just maybe, make some actual decisions on behalf of someone earning seven figures annually.
Let me know when you've written a function that tells a C.E.O. which three of thirty employees should be fired. That's a period, by the way. You get to figure out what that means, how it should work, and what to consider. Then you can tell me how simple your logic becomes.
Now, if you had said "learn about neural networks sometime", then at least you'd have been in first-year university.
Why don't you show me some code that no high school student could understand, no university student could write, and for which no employee could ever be accountable. Then you'll see what I do for a living.