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A toolkit for experimenting with new kinds of programming interfaces.
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The future of moonchild #14

Open Azeirah opened 9 years ago

Azeirah commented 9 years ago

I'm interested in what you think the use-case of this editor should be. Should it remain a research-project? Do you want it to be an editor that you can actually use for JavaScript work?

What I found this editor being a perfect fit for, is for live-editing, as you can find in my live branch. Number scrubbers, and the possibility of inline bezier-curve editors and such, makes this an excellent fit for live-programming. This editor could be very useful for this niche of creating dynamic imagery (as an alternative to for example, codepen.io). Pretty static websites, D3 visualizations and small games.

Alternatively, with features like markdown rendering and tests, I think it would be awesome if Moonchild could be integrated with a more popular editor. More people will be able to try it out and more plugins should appear.

I'd like to know what your view is on this. Let this stay a research project, fit a specific niche, integrate with a more popular editor, or something else?

edgenard commented 9 years ago

I just watched the video showing its work from Dubroy and I wonder why it couldn't be a general purpose editor? The immediate feedback would make any type of programming much more effective. That said, I've just watched the video, maybe if I were to try and use it I would think differently. Also are there any tutorials for getting started with it? Especially for someone like me who is fairly new to programming but would like to experiment with it.