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And of course, there's the obvious huge caveat of having other live cursors dancing around ruining your concentration. I like it when editing documents, but I feel like there's just no point in doing it on a source file.
Live editing the same code does sound painful. Stepping back a bit and just being able to see what someone was doing in a different part of the codebase as you worked could be helpful and fun:
* See a collaborators changes show up as flashes of red or green highlights in the editor directory tree.
* Warn you you and show a real-time diff if you are editing the same document.
* Run a static analyzer on hypothetical combined output to show more potential conflicts.
Once I can understand, twice it just feels disingenuous.
This is like third time they changed the name. Hyperdev to Gomix to Glitch.
"If you’ve been following along, you know Glitch is a new name for our community; our beta launch last year was under the name Gomix. Why did we change the name (again)? Well, we heard from some members of our community that the old name evokes a hurtful slur in some Russian communities, and given our deep commitment to building an inclusive service, that didn’t sit right with us, even though people understand we didn’t mean to be hurtful. But then we realized that in fixing this slight, we had the opportunity to pick a much better name, one that makes it absolutely clear that we’re building a community for everyone."
That seems like an odd choice, though the blog seems to suggest it's because everyone will be fixing each other's bugs.
I'm criticizing how they pretend this is a new product launch.
And yeah, the renamings are embarrassing because they're mistakes that were on me to catch. Won't happen again, but fortunately I have a team that is very understanding and I hope our community is, too.
"Gomik" means literally "faggot", the plural is "gomiki".
The suffix "-s" was being used in pre-revolutionary Russia as a way to make your speech sound more polite. Etymologically, "-s" is short for "sir". Nowadays, "-s" is used (very rarely) to imitate speech of somebody from those times, mostly for its humorous effect.
Given the above, "GoMix" sounds very ridiculous in Russian, something like "faggot, sir".
Are you ok with this? It's pretty offensive to me.
Well that just sounds like nonsense.
"I was worried that I had no good ideas, but thankfully I was able to remix facebook with a little uber and snapchat and boom now I'm a millionaire."
It might have been the point of this post but I still don't understand who this tool is for and what software in a dev setup it will replace.
As "who Glitch is for": it is for anyone that enjoys coding and is bored of spending so much time with deploy-related tasks. How often you had an idea but couldn't manage to keep it going because it would be so much of an hassle to just see it running somewhere outside of your laptop? I've been in that situation a lot of times: Glitch wants to be the run-to place for this kind of situations.
As such, its current focus is for newcomers that want to play and enjoy coding. On the other hand, we think that we should offer a compelling tool for experienced developers too. That's harder to achieve, but simply because there are already a lot of other tools for them. For new developers? Should they learn how to use git to publish a simple bot or a JavaScript game? We think we can do a lot for them.
As our userbase grows and matures, we strive to mature with them and always remain the most enjoyable option to deliver their ideas to the world :)
> The friendly community where you’ll build the app of your dreams.
Thought #1: The one word for what Glitch is is "community"? A friendly community might be (aspirationally, at least) a nice part of Glitch, but the more I think about it the less I'm sure I know what that means. My feeling is that lots of people who might find this interesting will bolt when presented with the apparent requirement to adopt yet another community.
Thought #2: I've had the pleasure/torture of hearing people's app dreams, and people will not be building the apps of their dreams with Glitch--and that's fiiine. What Glitch might be (assuming I kinda understand it) is A Place to Make Duct Tape for Internet Stuff, which seems like a great thing.
> It’s even easier to use Glitch than it is to describe it…
That is problematic. You invented an amazing thing (presumably) and you're not sure how to sell it to people who don't already get it, which is an unenviable scenario.
I'd really like to see how the Glitch folks would fill out the classic "For (your target) who wants/needs (reason to buy your product/service), the (your product or service) is a (category) that provides (your key benefit). Unlike (your main competitor), the (your product/service) (your key differentiator)."
"{..} and less like the chore of reviewing pull requests."
I would much rather review completed chunks of work than watch another developer trial and error through a days worth of work while I'm also typing away.
Don't get me wrong - it is very neat idea - just definitely not for me.
If you’re a commercial coder, the advantage that Glitch affords is that you don’t have to build every piece of tech that you use to make your life better. You can borrow, rework, or plain copy apps. that you don’t have the time or inclination to write, but would be happy to use.
If you’re new to coding or new to a certain part of the Stack, Glitch apps can serve as guides to show you roughly how it’s done. If you don’t find anything on Glitch.com today, just bookmark it and swing through periodically to see if there's anything that’s useful to you. Glitch is running code, built by living, breathing people, it will grow and change. The hope is that as it does, people will benefit and contribute to this mutually beneficial conversation in code.