Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a spreadsheet

Re:Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a sprea... by ketralnis on Friday July 21, 2017 @05:25PM (#14823843)

I use and love Calca which is a maths oriented text editor that does live display of equation results as you type. I really wish that more programming were like this: real-time feeling, high feedback. It's a great model for exploratory stuff and I often use it in place of spreadsheets

This is a cool project, I'm excited to see where it goes

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Re:Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a sprea... by artur_roszczyk on Friday July 21, 2017 @06:40PM (#14824266)

try clojure

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Re:Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a sprea... by ketralnis on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:12PM (#14825046)

I'm much more referring to editor UI than I am language

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Re:Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a sprea... by freshhawk on Monday July 24, 2017 @03:21PM (#14841749)

I'm not sure if the parent did, but I followed what you were looking for and the answer is still "try clojure", perhaps more specifically it is "Try the Clojure libraries figwheel and devcards to do web stuff" but the push for immediate feedback and "interactive programming" is central for everyone. It's a community that took Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk to heart, already agreeing due to the REPL centric workflows that most people used.

Bruce Hauman has some good talks about his tools, which are GUI application-centric and a joy to use [1][2][3]

If you aren't doing web or native mobile GUI stuff then the default tools have immediate unit test/linting/spec compliance feedback triggered every time you save a file.

Unless you mean you want a very simplified language, in which case you should look elsewhere. Clojure has definitely chosen the high power side of that trade-off, but this also allows some truly first class tools to be developed.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-kj2qwJa_E [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjFVdU8VLI [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Z_g2fnEDg <- this one in particular is original and outstanding in my opinion

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Re:Show HN: Mesh IDE – a code editor that feels like a sprea... by CyberDildonics on Saturday July 22, 2017 @09:20AM (#14827049)

This sums up the whole thread. We have a lot more low hanging fruit in the interfaces than we do in the languages.

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