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Light Table

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Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Electron / Atom Shell
Discontinued

The last version (0.8.1) is from January 2016.

3 / 5 Avg rating (2)
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight
  2.  Clean design

Features

  1.  Extensible by Plugins/Extensions

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Light Table information

  • Developed by

    Pratik Karki
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3
  • Alternatives

    88 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Development

GitHub repository

  •  11,711 Stars
  •  916 Forks
  •  181 Open Issues
  •   Updated Jun 17, 2022 (Archived)
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Our users have written 4 comments and reviews about Light Table, and it has gotten 60 likes

Light Table was added to AlternativeTo by innovator116 on Nov 17, 2012 and this page was last updated Sep 9, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
bleriotine
Apr 1, 2018
0

Really good alternative to Sublime Text. A light-weighted and clean editor, with few plugins to extend it to your needs. Few bugs have been already fixed on Github.

Top Negative Comment
tuva-hayabi
Aug 6, 2019
0

The file explorer of Light Table (Linux version) shows squares instead of letters under Ubuntu 18.04. Moreover, it’s nothing special. Bluefish, Geany or Atom are much better. And the project seems to be more or less discontinued. The last version (0.8.1) is from 2016, and while i’m writing this, we have 2019.

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carlosvgonzalez
Jun 28, 2021

That happens normally when the app is not native to Linux, but runs over wine or mono, that is a runtime translation library to Windows executables, you should install Microsoft Fontson your Linux Distro, I bet that is what is missing on you installation.

carlosvgonzalez
Jun 28, 2021

Microsoft Fonts

Spout
Feb 11, 2021
0

Dec 2020: Maintainer posted to repo stating they plan to re write the whole thing with an ETA Summer 2021. There has been subsequent activity.

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/discussions/2506

alternative1234
Sep 5, 2018
0

I don't know why this is marked as discontinued. There is activity in the Github repository (at least as of two months ago) and the website is still up and running, with a strategy post from 2017.

What is Light Table?

Light Table is a new interactive IDE that lets you modify running programs and embed anything from websites to games. It provides the real time feedback we need to not only answer questions about our code, but to understand how our programs really work.

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