[gramsey]

> "Our communities are wildly different from language to language, so much so that idioms even contradict each other..."

> "The way Clojure developers work is very different than the way C developers do..."

This couldn't be more true, and makes the $200,000 investment goal a heck of lot more reasonable. Imagine the difference between developing and testing HTML5 games with Javascript and creating business CRUD apps with Rails. It's very ambitious when you think about it, which is why I'm just as eager to see how this project evolves in the next couple of months.

Light Table has a huge potential to be dynamically multilingual. Each of these languages and platforms have vibrantly unique communities, and being able to speak to all of them will be the "thing" that makes it worth using.

[ibdknox]

Dynamically multilingual is a good way of putting it. Editors can, for the most part, serve a single set of features to many different languages, but something like an environment has a much harder time doing that. Context matters. Really trying to nail what works in different contexts is arguably the greatest value that will come out of the project.