What is Light Table?
It is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It gives real time feedback on the changes you make to your code, and shows how data values flow through your entire program. As such, it doesn't just provide the answers, but instead helps you understand why the answers are what they are.
Light Table is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
Light Table is an open source tool with 11.7K GitHub stars and 915 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Light Table's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Light Table?
Developers
Light Table Integrations
JavaScript, Node.js, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, and WakaTime are some of the popular tools that integrate with Light Table. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Light Table.
Light Table's Features
- Free and open source
- Cross-platform
- Lightweight
- Modern, smart UI with minimalist interface
- Auto-complete
- Inline evaluation
- Customizable with themes and plugins
- Split views and instant feedback.
Light Table Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Light Table?
Atom
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
Sublime Text
Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses.
Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
Brackets
With focused visual tools and preprocessor support, it is a modern text editor that makes it easy to design in the browser.
Vim
Vim is an advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'Vi', with a more complete feature set. Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. Vim is distributed free as charityware.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
