Re: Light Table IDE

Subject: Re: Light Table IDE
From: Laura Lemay <lemay -at- lauralemay -dot- com>
To: Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>, Lee Fisher <blibbet -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 17:22:06 -0700


FWIW Visual Studio has had inline popup documentation and code completion
for ages. It uses reflection and doc comments to supply information as
you type. There has been some argument that overreliance on VS code
completion "rots the brain." :)

Laura

On 5/13/12 4:06 PM, "Tony Chung" <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:

>That's a sweet concept. I proposed that idea at one company I worked
>at. After all, when does a developer most need documentation? When
>they're working with the product. Our company's product manuals were
>useless as PDFs.
>
>Espresso, the web dev IDE I use, lets you install "sugars" that
>provide syntax auto completion for different languages. The system
>also lets you build your own using an XML based language. it would be
>a great treat if you could also integrate context sensitive help.
>
>-Tony
>
>
>
>On 2012-05-13, at 10:38 AM, Lee Fisher <blibbet -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> So, two unique uses of technical documentation by this IDE. Nice ideas.
>>
>> https://vimeo.com/40281991
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
>>
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