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λiquid vs Light Table: What are the differences?
Developers describe λiquid as "Vim and Emacs-inspired editor written in Clojure". Clojure Text Editor, for editing clojure code and markdown. Written entirely in Clojure with inspiration from Emacs and Vim. On the other hand, Light Table is detailed as "It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation". 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.
λiquid and Light Table can be primarily classified as "Text Editor" tools.
Some of the features offered by λiquid are:
- Fluidable - Embed your code into λiquid or λiquid into your code
- Dependency free - Everything is pure Clojure
- Translatable - Tiny core, simple model, no tricks
On the other hand, Light Table provides the following key features:
- Free and open source
- Cross-platform
- Lightweight
λiquid is an open source tool with 711 GitHub stars and 27 GitHub forks. Here's a link to λiquid's open source repository on GitHub.