Carbide
Dev tools
notebook programming environment
SHOW HN2016
628points
136comments
#15of 2,264 in 2016
Top 1%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
23 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 13 mixed, 28 critical, out of 89 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Idea: 16 for, 9 againstPerformance: 0 for, 9 againstDocs: 0 for, 6 againstExecution: 1 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Instant feedback and live visualization of run-time values are useful for exploration
From 3 comments
I love instant feedback, it really changes the way you can create code because your cognitive system is unloaded of many assumptions to rely on real results (in-place evaluated…
sebastianconcpt on HNThis is great. Tools like this are useful when exploring a problem, it's very handy to have the instant feedback. Using the widgets to tweak things is also very cool, I could…
hugozap on HNThis looks perfect for live demos and interactive gists of relatively straightforward code.
Waterluvian on HN
Interesting ideas, similar to Bret Victor's work
From 2 comments
Very cool! Seems similar to what Brett Victor demos here: https://vimeo.com/36579366
ergest on HNVery cool! Some of this reminds me of the talk that Bret Victor gave at CUSEC 2012: https://vimeo.com/36579366
electriclove on HN
Objections
Website is too resource intensive and crashes or slows browsers
From 4 comments
Looks like a cool project, but I can't scroll very far down the site before my browser crashes. I've reproduced this several times, here's the terminal output if it helps: ``` $…
chriswarbo on HNLooks interesting, but the website is so ressource intensive that I practically can't scroll down on it. I gave up reading what it is.
wodenokoto on HNCool looking site/project... However, the web page kicked the fans on my laptop into jet mode. Is this like Jupyter or built with Jupyter tech?
monkmartinez on HNThe site skyrocketed Firefox's CPU usage, unfortunately.
kiliancs on HN
Unclear what the product does and how to try it
From 4 comments
First - super cool. Second - I'm at a loss for exactly what it does. Sorry. I get the 1000 mile-high view, and I get some of the super specific examples. But I'm not sure how it…
jomamaxx on HNBut, why? Like whats the purpose of using this as opposed to vim and a browser? And what do they mean that it requires no installation or setup? Is it not a native program? How…
elliotec on HNFeedback: I did not want to read all the texts (it's too much) and just wanted to try it out. But I couldn't easily find out a way to try. After scrolling down a lot, I finally…
stockkid on HNThe page is surprisingly uninformative. It took me good 5 minutes of looking for "download" button before realizing that it's an in-browser IDE. A big "Try it now" button on top…
kbart on HN
Browser-only use is risky if the company fails; wants local install
From 2 comments
> Requires no installation or setup This is not something I want; if a product I use is available only via a web site and the company goes under, the product goes away with it.…
gnuvince on HNSeems awesome. I will probably never use it because it is not flexible enough to run anywhere and on VPSes without friction, but I sincerely hope you succeed.
fiatjaf on HN
Requests
Open source the project
From 3 comments
> We're thinking of releasing Carbide as open source in the coming weeks if there's a community interested in building stuff on top of it I'll be hitting refresh until you do :)
fizx on HNAwesome work!! Please release the source!
peternicky on HNOpen source?
cercatrova on HN
Support more languages
From 1 comment
Hey HN! I'm one of the creators of Carbide, and I'm really excited to share it with you all. We're thinking of releasing Carbide as open source in the coming weeks if there's a…
antimatter15 on HN
Questions
How does it compare to Tonic, LightTable or Jupyter?
From 3 comments
Any comments on how your project compares to https://tonicdev.com/home? It looks like y'all are really aiming for Bret Victor-style direct manipulation, which is a bit more…
nhaliday on HNHow does this compare to LightTable?
hibbelig on HNCool looking site/project... However, the web page kicked the fans on my laptop into jet mode. Is this like Jupyter or built with Jupyter tech?
monkmartinez on HN
How does the backwards computation work?
From 2 comments
I'm curious about how the backwards computations work - how do you detect when the backwards computation can be easily calculated? For example, if we hash some input string and…
NarcolepticFrog on HNWow, the back-propagation thing is very cool! Although it would take me a long time to trust something like that enough to use it. Is there any way to use it offline? (I guess if…
taneq on HN
Alternatives named
Tonic
From 1 comment
Any comments on how your project compares to https://tonicdev.com/home? It looks like y'all are really aiming for Bret Victor-style direct manipulation, which is a bit more…
nhaliday on HN
LightTable
From 2 comments
I was pretty excited about LightTable (which has some similar ideas) when it started out, but then Chris Granger went on to another project and LightTable was left hanging. They…
prance on HNHow does this compare to LightTable?
hibbelig on HN
Jupyter
From 2 comments
Cool looking site/project... However, the web page kicked the fans on my laptop into jet mode. Is this like Jupyter or built with Jupyter tech?
monkmartinez on HNThe terminology is interesting. "Notebooks", "Kernels"... So, Jupyter-like?
outworlder on HN