In the next article we are going to take a look at the Light Table. This is a Free, customizable, functional and open source IDE with a modern and intuitive user interface. It offers us support for plugins, command panel and a connection manager. It was created by Chris Granger and Robertri. Its main objective was to provide developers with the ability to write and debug software with ease. Developers will be able to get intelligent feedback from IDE and exchange creative ideas with other users in the Light Table community.
Light Table is an environment that offers us real-time feedback. It will offer us the possibility of instantaneous execution, debugging and access to documentation with our codes. Instant Response provides a runtime environment to help develop abstractions.
The first publication of Light Table occurred back in April 2012. At that time it was just a new concept for an IDE. The development team tried to create a program that shows the programmer what the effects of his add-ons are in real time. This will prevent us from having to resolve defects after writing the code. Although the program started out supporting only ClojureScript, it has since aimed to support Python y JavaScript due to its popularity. The developers claim that the software can reduce programming time by up to 20%.
Light Table offers us a light, clean and elegant interface with all the power and functionality that we will need to program. Forget about console impressions to see the results of our code. Just evaluate your code and the results will be displayed in real time.
In Light Table we can enjoy the typical features offered by IDEsincluding intellisense, autocompletion and indentation, syntax highlighting, etc.
Features in Light Table
- This application is Freeware. Light Table is free for everyone to download and use.
- If you wish, you can contribute or consult the source code at GitHub. Each bit of the code Light Table is available to the community.
- Es multi platform. All Gnu / Linux, Windows and Mac users can enjoy the freshness of Light Table.
- Users have access to a Assessment documentation and online manual. We will also have at our disposal a forum en línea where you can network with other Light Table users.
- You can be aware of the latest news and changes in the blog of this program.
- In its interface we will have an intuitive navigation panel, file tree and command panel with which we can work comfortably. From this interface we will have access to a Add-on manager to download, install and manage a good number of plugins. The plugin manager connects to the central list of plugins so you don't have to search the internet to find the one you want to install.
- The interface posed a both stylish and lightweight design and beautifully designed so that our new IDE has the order we need to work comfortably.
- We will be able embed everything we wantFrom graphics to games to running visualizations.
- The program is easily customizable. From keybinds to extensions to be fully adapted to our specific project.
- Everything from testing and debugging, to a fuzzy search engine so that files and commands are perfectly suited to our workflow.
Download Light Table
This program no installation process required. We will only have to download it from the project website. Once the download is finished we will only have to unzip the .zip file. Inside the folder we will have to execute the file indicated in the previous screenshot. The program will open in front of us.
In short, if you are looking for a creative and interesting developer community from which you can get information or if you just want to try a different IDE, then Light Table is an ideal bet.