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Light Table IDE Finds Funding Success

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-dark-table-next dept.

omar.sahal writes "Chris Granger's Light Table IDE, covered here previously on Slashdot, has been successfully funded by a Kickstarter campaign. 7,317 backers brought in $316,720, obliging Chris to support the Python Programming language with his first release. Chris and his team have also been successful in being funded by Y Combinator. Here's some more background (video) on the concepts developed by Bret Victor found in Light Table.

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  1. Re:Yawn by cheesybagel · · Score: 4, Informative

    The guy was a VS Project Manager at MS. It's in his bio...

  2. Light Table - Why it's Cool by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Informative

    It took me a long time to figure out what is interesting about Light Table. If you've seen Eclipse or Visual Studio, you might think that it's really boring, because both of those can do all that and more.

    What's cool about it is this works in Python, which is a late-bound language. So far, no IDE will give you thinks like autocomplete for a language like Python or Ruby. This isn't a huge problem, but it's nice to have.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."