<story><title>New year, same old plans</title><url>http://lighttable.com/2019/03/31/New-year-old-plans/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mortdeus</author><text>One thing that bothers me about new code editors&amp;#x2F;IDEs is that their developers really don&amp;#x27;t do a good enough job researching and deriving inspiration from the editors that already exist.&lt;p&gt;For example, I have yet to find any modern editor that draws inspiration from the brilliantly designed ideas used in Plan 9&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;sam&amp;#x27; and &amp;#x27;acme&amp;#x27; editors.&lt;p&gt;For example structured regexps, 3 button mouse chording, and the &amp;#x27;plumb&amp;#x27; feature thats basically a context-aware, smarter version of a unix pipe between two executables.&lt;p&gt;I mean i can go on and on but another thing that i find absolutely annoying about newer editors is that they all use Webkit as the base of their apps core foundation.&lt;p&gt;This makes it irritating to consider trying to make changes to the code that I believe would overall improve the editor and make it more useful. (at least as far as im concerned)&lt;p&gt;I can literally make a list a mile long of things I like in other editors and wish i could see condensed into one ultimate code editor to supplant all code editors that had come before.</text></comment>
<story><title>New year, same old plans</title><url>http://lighttable.com/2019/03/31/New-year-old-plans/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>newcrobuzon</author><text>Any idea what happened to Chris Granger and the original LightTable&amp;#x2F;Eve plans? If I am not mistaken they took some VC money right? How did that work out? Would be really interested to hear their story and lessons learned.&lt;p&gt;Aside from that I was a big LightTable fan and really enjoyed its inline instarepl and other features, so it is definitely great to see that LT is not completely forgotten! Kudos!</text></comment>