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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What is it with old guys and VI/Emacs? If it was up to you people, we'd never have developed desktop environments because Emacs has a file manager, web browser, and games.