Light Table VS mpv

Compare Light Table vs mpv and see what are their differences.

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Light Table mpv
10 830
11,740 25,874
- 2.4%
0.0 9.9
almost 2 years ago 7 days ago
Clojure C
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Light Table

Posts with mentions or reviews of Light Table. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-06.
  • Light Table
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Apr 2023
    https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable

    Looks like the project has been archived

  • Ask HN: More “experimental“ UIs for editing/writing code?
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2022
  • A Source Code Path Visualizer
    1 project | /r/golang | 24 Jul 2022
    I think LightTable development stalled out when the original creator left the project in 2015. Likely the project was too ambitious and maybe ahead of its time. Or maybe Clojure was not the right language to build an IDE...
  • Ask HN: Best Dev Tool pitches of all time?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2022
    I think the closest we got to a closure of Light Table is this: https://chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/

    Which includes:

    > Light Table will continue to go on strong. We haven’t talked too much about it lately, but it’s used by tens of thousands of people and still growing. We use it every day to help us build Eve and thanks to the awesome people in the community that has sprung up around it, it gets better every week.

    Judging by GitHub contribution data (https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/graphs/contributors...), it seems there has only been 25 commits (from one author) since Sep 20, 2019.

  • AWESOME WINDOWS TOOLS
    102 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2021
    Light Table - A customizable editor with instant feedback and showing data values flow through your code.
  • [번역] From node-webkit to Electron 1.0
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Apr 2021
  • Are there extensible environments in the manner of Emacs outside of text editors and developer tools generally?
    6 projects | /r/lisp | 4 Apr 2021
    Most IDEs nowadays are as extensible as Emacs is, but most people don't think of them as app platforms, they think of them as IDEs, so they don't bother craeting Email or IRC clients for their IDEs: - Racket's own DrRacket IDE is pretty extensible, although no one seems to try to extend it with apps like Magit, Org-Mode, Calc, or whatever other useful features that Emacs provides. It is theoretically possible, but it just hasn't happened yet. - LightTable is a powerful programming editor written and extensible in Clojure. - Gnome's Gedit can be scripted in Python.
  • Emacs on Graal
    1 project | /r/emacs | 22 Mar 2021
    I think it would be better to create an Emacs Lisp interpreter in Clojure for the LightTable editor.
  • Code Shelter: collective to help maintain popular OSS whose authors need a hand or don't have the time any more
    2 projects | /r/linux | 3 Jan 2021
    It looks like it's not completely abandoned, at least. https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/discussions/2506
  • Cider 1.0
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Dec 2020
    I'm no Bozhidar, but thought I'd share some links you might find interesting:

    - https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable - Clojure editor made in Clojure, not sure if it's being maintained anymore, core authors moved on to a different project if I remember correctly.

    - https://github.com/mogenslund/liquid - Clojure editor made in Clojure, fairly new and basic but has a pretty tight integration with Clojure (itself really) which makes it interesting and it can also be embedded into other applications (or embed your other applications into Liquid)

    - https://github.com/Olical/conjure - My daily driver for Clojure development. Is not an editor by itself, but it's written in Clojure, and exposed to neovim as a vim plugin. Not only supports Clojure, but also Fennel, Janet and Racket so far. Pretty handy if you sometimes like to dive into Clojure-like languages that are not Clojure (or Racket).

mpv

Posts with mentions or reviews of mpv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Light Table and mpv you can also consider the following projects:

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

GStreamer - GStreamer open-source multimedia framework

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

celluloid - A simple GTK+ frontend for mpv

Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

FFmpeg - Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git

intellij-community - IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition & IntelliJ Platform

glsl-shaders - This repo is for glsl shaders converted by hand from libretro's common-shaders repo, since some don't play nicely with the cg2glsl script.

Vim - The official Vim repository

VideoLAN Client (VLC) - VLC media player - All pull requests are ignored, please follow https://wiki.videolan.org/Sending_Patches_VLC/