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So they copied this idea for the IDE?

http://www.lighttable.com



Well, LightTable was inspired by Bret Victor's ideas. He worked at Apple earlier.


Seems a lot more like a call back to the Smalltalk roots of Objective-C.


I think they were thinking about this even earlier: http://vimeo.com/36579366


I cannot be any happier that they did.


Was my very first thought, too. The next thought was Bret Victor. Yeah.




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