Light Table is an
integrated development environment for
software engineering developed by Chris Granger and Robert Attorri. It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation.
The instant feedback provides an execution environment intended to help developing
abstractions
Abstraction in its main sense is a conceptual process wherein general rules and concepts are derived from the usage and classification of specific examples, literal ("real" or "concrete") signifiers, first principles, or other methods.
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The development team attempted to create a program which shows the programmer what the effects of their additions are in real-time, rather than requiring them to work out the effects as they write the code.
Though the program began by supporting only
Clojure, it has since aimed to support
Python and
JavaScript.
The developers claim that the software can reduce programming time by up to 20%.
It was financed by a
Kickstarter
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fundraising campaign and subsequently backed by
Y Combinator.
The Kickstarter campaign aimed to raise $200,000 USD and finished with $316,720 USD.
See also
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Interactive programming
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Literate programming
Literate programming is a programming paradigm introduced in 1984 by Donald Knuth in which a computer program is given as an explanation of its logic in a natural language, such as English, interspersed (embedded) with snippets of macros and t ...
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