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Chris, if you're around, you mentioned that you're now building Light Table in Light Table. Does this include the front end Clojurescript? Because I would love to move my Clojure / Clojurescript project over to LT if that's possible.

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It does indeed, but we punted on including CLJS in this release because we didn't have enough time to test it. It should make it into the next release though :)

Very cool. I look forward to it. I'm just poking around this release now, and it's great to see the vision you had in the original video coming together. Not to rush you or anything, but I was wondering how the plugin API was coming along. Is that something that we'll get to play with anytime soon, or will that be something that comes with the final release next year?

Isn't it going to be open sourced at some point? Why not just let people get at your dev branches or at least provide builds for them

Also, keep up the awesome work!

Even if OSS isn't an option, I think it would be a nice idea for Light Table to provide low level API/Interface so that eco system grow like emacs/vim/eclipse. Perhaps Chris has already considered this idea.

Yep, that should all be happening. Scroll to the FAQ section of the kickstarter - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table - it will be OSS and will also have an API for developing plugins with Javascript. He's already shown a cool benchmarking mode in one of the videos.

The text rendering looks extremely nice. Is this Java/Swing based, or does it use something else?

I believe that's WebKit under the hood.

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