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pretty short sighted to have no interest in a novel/progressive IDE because it doesn't support your language yet.

History suggests otherwise.

it's one thing to be short sighted, and another to be realistic given a bevy of similar past projects that went nowhere. When was the last time you heard about Lighttable?

The Lighttable team realized they were on the wrong path. Eventually, the semantics of imperative languages are completely at odds with the goals of a supercharged development environment like this. That's why they pivoted to Eve: http://github.com/witheve/eve

I'm sure the Carbide guys will figure that out on their own.

LightTable started as a clojure/-script IDE which are not imperative but functional languages.

the question isn't when I last heard of lighttable. the question is what people, ideas, programs, and concepts has it inspired?

"have no interest" and "use the IDE" are not the only two possible reactions here.

Good for playing around with and exploring the idea. But for practical usage, IDE in a browser is generally a Bad Idea.

"Good for playing around with and exploring the idea."

my point, for the most part. :)

You know, my first instinct was - "oh my god, another web IDE, this sucks", but this thought was immediately replaced by "if that's what is the best way to rapidly develop a prototype and distribute it to large audience, then so be it". Someone later (or they themselves) may steal those ideas and redo them in a more "production-quality" environment, but what we need right now is ideas and prototypes to test and explore.

s/doesn't support your language yet/is vaporware/

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