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I'm just not getting how this is all that different from something like Eclipse, which compiles code while you're writing it, displays error messages in real time, and allows you to gain a sense of what the code is doing (which method is called) by mousing over methods. Is this a way to make life that much easier or is it the same basic idea?

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This one has pretty colors and Silicon Valley investors.

I empathize with this sentiment.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to contain my eye-rolling whenever yet another SV company announces their plans, intent or manifest destiny to "change the world".

> This one has pretty colors and Silicon Valley investors.

No This one places the idea at the center of the IDE.

The implementation is the concept, and the user interface is the program.

I'd like to see the eclipse feature that was mentioned, but I don't really like the baggage that comes with eclipse. Maybe I won't like baggage that comes with this, but that doesn't change the fact that this project really interesting.

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