Well, things could be hotting up in the dynamic IDE world. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table?ref=history
Light Table looks like it is a modern take on the old Smalltalk IDE (Visualage, Squeak). It's going back to the idea of having code in an image (stacks in our case), compared to separate files on the filesystem (and of course, it will meet with the same issues of source code control). In some ways an IDE for Livecode could already be doing many of these things that Light Table proposes. Maybe I'm misremembering the impact of GLX2 on our community, but with enough resources I'm sure Runrev could have taken up the ideas in it and gone much further, given the dynamic nature of Livecode. We might have had our own Light Table by now if Runrev had the funds to dedicate to that task (I'm sure some are aghast at the idea of Light Table, and I'm far from convinced myself). It is quite amazing that from within the Livecode IDE we can switch between script editors with very different conceptions of how things should be done (and those conceptions have been narrowed because Runrev was inspired to adopt some of the ideas used in GLX2). From day one, it has always been one of the things I liked about Runrev's product - that the whole development environment was scripts on top of the engine. It is only now after a decade or more of DHTML that we are seeing web IDEs running in the browser: http://maqetta.org/ (and that has probably taken millions of hours of "free" programmer time + the resources of IBM, and it is still far from satisfactory). Kickstarter looks to me like it is shaking things up. People with ideas who would have previously had trouble raising money are able to "crowdsource" their financing. Of course, Light Table might never really get off the ground. Bernard On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Glen Bojsza <gboj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Back in the early 2000 pythonware was formed by several prominent leaders in > the python community. > > It was delivering an IDE for python...I actually was one of the first and few > who bought a license. > > They eventually shut down. From a conversation with one of the founders I > learnt that people expected anything and everything dealing with python to be > free. Ergo the business model failed. > > I still have the t-shirt that came with the license :-) > > > Glen _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
