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Anyone out there spending any substantial part of their workflow in LT? Which languages? Would be curious to hear an experience report.

I check in every once in a while to see how it's coming along. The 0.5 series seems nice and I was impressed by the instarepl, but have yet to spend any real time with the editor.

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I use it exclusively for all my clojure work and have been for a while. It works well, and especially shines with its REPL integration, and when paired with Leiningen. Chris really has done a great job at keeping things minimal and elegant.

However, I use it because I'm a vim user and clojure has never had stellar support in vim (whereas Light Table--or rather CodeMirror's editor--has vim bindings). If you're an emacs user, Light Table might not offer anything over existing emacs tools.

Curious, have you tried vim-fireplace? I'm enjoying it a lot, though I haven't tried lighttable.

Quite happy with vim/fireplace here, though I'm still pretty interested in lighttable.

I've had the same experience with Clojure in vim, and that's great to hear. Thanks!

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