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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. A little late by Mitreya · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Links to Kickstarter projects are much more interesting BEFORE the the funding round ends. It's too late for anyone to participate.
    By the way, why can't I fund a closed (but funded) Kickstarter project past the deadline?

    1. Re:A little late by UCFFool · · Score: 3, Interesting

      By the way, why can't I fund a closed (but funded) Kickstarter project past the deadline?

      As a successful Kickstarter project creator, I would hate that. It's one thing when you are doing software, but it's quite another when you are shipping a product. After it closes, you can go to the website and find out how you can get it once all Kickstarter backers are rewarded.

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    2. Re:A little late by DogDude · · Score: 3, Interesting

      By the way, why can't I fund a closed (but funded) Kickstarter project past the deadline?

      You can. Just send the company a check.

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  2. Re:Yawn by Hentes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    True, but all of those were developed for static languages in mind. Using them for dynamic languages is uncomfortable. This project might become for Python and Lisp what those environments are for C and Java.

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

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

  4. 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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  5. Re:Yawn by Tenebrousedge · · Score: 3, Funny

    Uh, huh. And this in this IDE you will be able to code fluently from second 0?

    Why do you think people will be able to code fluently from second 0 in this IDE?

    ELIZA program detected!

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