[twelvechairs]

The key line for me here is that the future is in 'easily created domain specific experiences'. I think this is very eloquently stated and can't agree more.

I like what Light table is trying to do, hoewver it is still working in pretty much the same 'domain' space as existing IDE's ('code'), and trying to improve on the 'easily created... experiences' part.

As the post is waxing lyrical, my piece to add to the broad-concept discussion is that I'd really like to see more programs which try to be applicable to a broad variety of non-coding domains, which actually occupy the majority of the work that people do on computers (working with images, working with spreadsheets, working with documents and pages, working with 3d spaces, animation, realtime information, etc.), allowing the easy creation of 'domain specific experiences' in these, which is generally impossible or very difficult in most of todays pre-compiled software for these tasks.

[I hope that all makes sense to someone :) Would also appreciate any discussion as something along these lines is a side-project of mine atm]

[ibdknox]

We showed examples that relate very cleanly to "normal coding", but what we ultimately want to see is exactly what you're describing. There are so many places where a thin veil over the implementation would be immensely useful, presenting new interfaces for things like working with physics simulations, financial models, etc etc.

[twelvechairs]

Thanks for the response. I realise you probably have huge priorities finding your way to MVP right now, however I hope to see more of this side in the future. I just saw your 'live game editor' video, which is probably closer to what I am thinking of - using the visual element (in that case the game window) to feed back into the live code [this hasn't really been in the lighttable videos - which led me to my assumption lighttable was 'code' based in my prev post]. I really think that the future is in there somewhere.

Best of luck to you by the way :)

[nickik]

I think a lot of that stuff can be done if there are JS implmentation. You want be able to use the importend functions from excel in a browser (or anywhere else) its just made for this kind of stuff. If there are JS you might be able to inlude them into the working process of Light Table. Lets see, its a nice idea.

[twelvechairs]

Yeah. JS might help in this regard, but I guess I am hoping for an system where there isn't the same divide between coding environment and platform being coded for. If you could build excel (or similar) _within_ lighttable - and still allow all sorts of live code testing - that would be a real leap to me.