Code Bubbles - opinions? [modified]
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Code Bubbles[^] are a new IDE interface paradigm (according to their site) They have a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k[^] (also on their site) To me it certainly looks .. different, and fancy, I'm not yet sure how well I would like it The debugging features (@ 6 minutes in vid) definitely look useful to me though. edit: screenshot(of video, not direct) -> http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^]
modified on Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:02 AM
That is seriously neat. Looks like it's for Java... if it were for C#, I'd be all over it. I would like to program with that using a giant screen, like the one from Minority Report. I suppose the large virtual surface and ability to zoom out is their substitute for that, but that doesn't mean I don't still want it. :rolleyes:
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Code Bubbles[^] are a new IDE interface paradigm (according to their site) They have a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k[^] (also on their site) To me it certainly looks .. different, and fancy, I'm not yet sure how well I would like it The debugging features (@ 6 minutes in vid) definitely look useful to me though. edit: screenshot(of video, not direct) -> http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^]
modified on Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:02 AM
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I'll take some - one moment please Here's one: http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^] You can't see anything, I know. Youtube crappyness.
Oh, ta. It does look very intriguing. I'm imagining coding away in a class, and calling some method in another class and being able to click something like visual studio's "go to definition" button, but rather than switching the code pane, it pops up just the requested method in a little side pane. It does sound like a cool idea. I might just give this a try at home sometime.
Simon
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Very cool. Looks like it would stop a lot of jumping about during maintenance programming! I watched the video and wondered how it would deal with debugging recursive functions... Chris
Presumably you could just open lots of bubbles to the same function, each at a different stack level.
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Presumably you could just open lots of bubbles to the same function, each at a different stack level.
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Code Bubbles[^] are a new IDE interface paradigm (according to their site) They have a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k[^] (also on their site) To me it certainly looks .. different, and fancy, I'm not yet sure how well I would like it The debugging features (@ 6 minutes in vid) definitely look useful to me though. edit: screenshot(of video, not direct) -> http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^]
modified on Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:02 AM
What I like about it:
- using language scope (e.g. classes, methods) instead of compiler scope (i.e. files)
- Linking to, and annotating source elements
- Integrating non-code elements (docs, bug tracker, ...)
I'd love to see a source-control-integrated "history fo this function". I don't know how well this works with "chinese wall of code" functions (say, 100 chars wide x 1000 lines). Also, do other IDE tools integrate with it - am I going to miss them? Does it preserve the "classic" file format as source control / compiler interface, so that other tools in the workflow can do their job? Does it come only for Java?
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What I like about it:
- using language scope (e.g. classes, methods) instead of compiler scope (i.e. files)
- Linking to, and annotating source elements
- Integrating non-code elements (docs, bug tracker, ...)
I'd love to see a source-control-integrated "history fo this function". I don't know how well this works with "chinese wall of code" functions (say, 100 chars wide x 1000 lines). Also, do other IDE tools integrate with it - am I going to miss them? Does it preserve the "classic" file format as source control / compiler interface, so that other tools in the workflow can do their job? Does it come only for Java?
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Code Bubbles[^] are a new IDE interface paradigm (according to their site) They have a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k[^] (also on their site) To me it certainly looks .. different, and fancy, I'm not yet sure how well I would like it The debugging features (@ 6 minutes in vid) definitely look useful to me though. edit: screenshot(of video, not direct) -> http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^]
modified on Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:02 AM
Looks intruiging: I'd certainly like to try it especially now I have more and larger screens. Perhaps by VS2020...
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Code Bubbles[^] are a new IDE interface paradigm (according to their site) They have a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k[^] (also on their site) To me it certainly looks .. different, and fancy, I'm not yet sure how well I would like it The debugging features (@ 6 minutes in vid) definitely look useful to me though. edit: screenshot(of video, not direct) -> http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^]
modified on Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:02 AM
I confess that I went to look expecting it to be rubbish, but I'm very impressed.
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I'd need to find out myself anyway - it's just my thoughts about it - as you requested ;)
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Code Bubbles[^] are a new IDE interface paradigm (according to their site) They have a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsPX0nElJ0k[^] (also on their site) To me it certainly looks .. different, and fancy, I'm not yet sure how well I would like it The debugging features (@ 6 minutes in vid) definitely look useful to me though. edit: screenshot(of video, not direct) -> http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9020/debugging.png[^]
modified on Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:02 AM
This reminds me of FoxPro Code Snippets, and how developers (at the time) thought it was a great idea, right up until that first big project ... when things weren't going right ... and you had to find that one code snippet that was causing the problem, which went something like: Not this one. No, that's not it Or this one No. Wait, didn't I just look at that one??!?!?! Crap, maybe it was this one. Ok, I'll just open them all, I'm sure there aren't that many of thes... OH MOTHER OF GOD! STOP! STOP! [1 hour later] Close. Close. Close. Close. Close. Close.
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