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Comment by cromwellian | Hacker News Reader

The superlatives are being laid on a little thick and likely to invite criticism. There are lots of similar features here that have been introduced in other IDEs and environments before.

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I hope that sample screen shot is not supposed to suck me in, is it? Honestly I took one look at that screen and closed the tab.

Is this particular editor suited to a specific language or set of languages?

Arthur here. We designed that screen shot to be as bad as possible! Our goal was to get people to leave the site as quickly as we could and then to ask random strangers about our IDE rather than clicking around for a few minutes and seeing what it offered. Mission accomplished!

Can you explain your reasoning behind that goal? It doesn't seem like something I'd want, but I'm not a great marketer so I'm curious what you'll gain from it.

I think that was a prank.

Exhibit A on why sarcasm detection is difficult. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7845193)

Umm.. congratulations?

This looks great to edit the content tree of static site generators. Can it render Markdown files? Is the syntax highlighter aware of Liquid template tags?

  I hope that sample screen shot is not supposed to suck me in, is it?

I think it's supposed to give you and idea of what the editor looks like. Do you find that looking at screenshots usually helps you evaluate programming tools?

  Is this particular editor suited to a specific language or set of languages?

I guess that answers my question. I guess the reason you can't answer your question for yourself is because you...

  took one look at that screen and closed the tab.

Yes, screenshots are important. If you include one, make it count.

The screenshot helped me understand what the app looks like and how it might behave. Not really sure what you're trying to say.

> There are lots of similar features here that have been introduced in other IDEs and environments before.

Sure, it's not unique. But please bear in mind that this isn't the initial release of LEO by any means.

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