Doing so for languages like C++, was a sea of boilerplate that you couldn't touch, which is why I never moved away from Pascal. Similar fragility was evident in WxPython and it's builder.
I'm glad to see that LLMs can provide a match for less well suited Language/GUI pairs. We all deserve to get that kind of productivity.
I built a small project where you can live-code Love2D. The running program updates in real time (no saving needed) and see all values update in real-time, via LSP.
https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/livelove
And also added the same kind of interactivity like a number slider and color picker that replace text inline, like yours (though via vs code extension: https://gist.github.com/jasonjmcghee/17a404bbf15918fda29cf69...)
Here's another experiment where I made it so you could "drag and drop" to choose a position for something by manipulating the editor / replacing a computed position with a static one, on keypress.
https://clj.social/@jason/113550406525463981
There's so much cool stuff you can do here.
As a software developer, I always get frustrated when I am doing some graphical work and struggle to neatly parametrize whatever I am drawing (wooden cabinets and furniture, room layouts, installation plans...) and switch between coding where that makes most sense and GUI where it doesn't.
The best I've gotten was FreeCAD with Python bindings (I've got a couple of small libraries to build out components for me), but while you can use your own editor, the experience is not very seamless.
And then I start imagining tools like the one here, but obviously doing it just right for me (balancing the level of coding or GUI work).
More broadly, I was genuinely shocked to realize, when I was playing with it, that there is no cross CAD file format that captures even simple design concepts like “this hole is aligned to the center of this plate” or even “this is a 2mm fillet”. STEP (the file format) mostly just captures final geometry.
I think CAD people just … redesign the part again if they need to move from say Fusion 360 to FreeCAD or whatever. How do they live like that?!
That is why STEP containing the final BREP manifold solid is the standard interchange that it is - it is a final representation of the solved output that IS portable, and anything else is... difficult.
We put in for some funding for the next edition of STEP AP242 for me to be able to work more closely with the user group to improve this area.
Of course it’s great for vendor lock-in.
But given how many companies need to work with diverse suppliers, there must be a whole bunch of re-creating models happening. There is no chance that everybody is using the same CAD tool
Screenshots and GIFs for the explanation!
The PDF ones are especially fun!
The whole playground is built for bidi sync!
A lot of folks had fun watching Minecraft built using a live code session, if I recall.
There's no security risk there that wasn't present before as far as I can tell because you were already planning on running the LSP on your local machine..
I think I’ve heard that vscode has benefitted hugely from it starting out with a client-server architecture from the start, since it started as a browser based editor. Things like editing code directly on servers via ssh or in containers is easy for vscode cause its client-server all the way down.
Vscode and LSP are both Microsoft products, maybe Microsoft has been pushing the client server thing?
1. naturally async
2. each server and the editor itself can be written in its own language and runtime easily
3. servers can just crash or be killed because of oom errors and your editor won't be affected
4. in a lot of languages it is easier to write a server then to call/export c abi
5. the editor can run in a browser and connect to a remote server
6. you can have a remote central server
all of those things are done in practice
Seriously though, it does combine the "RPC IDL" aspect of the former, with the "Use English" aspect of the latter.
https://lists.openscad.org/empathy/thread/GAX4QYYRUC3CEH572I...
The devil is in the details though, and I worry about the UI becoming cluttered and unmanageable.
But well, the project is very cool and I love the idea of using LSP for something more!
> Write in the browser with your text editor.
I was a bit concerned that HN's algorithm might down-weight posts with non-ASCII characters in titles to discourage people from trying to attract attention with them, but it seems like it's fine?
Why do cool ideas take so much time to be embraced in mainstream?
Retoric question, naturally they weren't VC friendly with exponential growth capitalising user acquisition. /s