[HN Gopher] Show HN: Lucidity - an interactive program-state vis...
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Show HN: Lucidity - an interactive program-state visualizer
Author : westoncb
Score : 37 points
Date : 2020-01-09 20:45 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| capableweb wrote:
| This should not be a Show HN as there is nothing you can actually
| try.
|
| > Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play
| with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask
| questions in the thread
| [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html]
|
| If you upload binaries for the various platforms somewhere and
| link on the page, maybe mods be nice enough to let the post stay
| here?
|
| Because the project looks awesome and I would to try it out in
| order to give feedback and use it myself.
| westoncb wrote:
| Hmm, I guess it depends on how letter vs. spirit you'd like to
| interpret that in. It is still a project I spent years working
| on that I'd like to share with the community and get feedback
| on, so that I can potentially make it available.
|
| Unfortunately at the moment there isn't really a reasonable way
| for me to make binaries available that would be useful for
| much. I'm going to go make a sandwich and then think a bit more
| about whether there's something I can do, though.
|
| I assume the mods are fine wit it since they've already revised
| the title once.
| rl3 wrote:
| > _This should not be a Show HN as there is nothing you can
| actually try._
|
| You're technically correct.[0]
|
| That said, I was extremely pleased to just have a glimpse at
| this project and would rather have it be a Show HN than not.
|
| Upon further reflection I usually just look at most Show HNs
| without interacting, and I suspect many people are the same
| way.
|
| [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
| duncancarroll wrote:
| Very cool! Looks very promising and something I'd use often if it
| were connected to IntelliJ. I'd been toying around with a similar
| idea of doing a similar "visual debugger" but within VR (not that
| it needs to be, but 3D is fun. I've never found time to execute
| on it however.
| westoncb wrote:
| Thanks, and glad to hear! Yeah... having it connected to
| IntelliJ was something that seemed always 'around the corner'
| for years. I think I will forever be annoyed working on
| projects without having something like this around--so
| hopefully someone will get to it eventually.
|
| It seems like there is more interest in this 'direction' these
| days though: I saw something new from the Firefox dev tools the
| other day whose time-navigation felt very similar (I'll see if
| I can find it), and the Clojure REBL project feels
| philosophically aligned. And I've seen a few others.
|
| Using it in VR would be awesome :D
|
| Edit: I think this was the Firefox devtools thing I was
| thinking of: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
| US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
| westoncb wrote:
| Author here btw. Happy to answer any questions.
| hooande wrote:
| do you have a github repo? if not, why did you choose to self
| host?
|
| edit: ok, sorry I missed the whole section of your website that
| answers this. let me rephrase as, "can you say more about why
| you chose not to open source?"
| westoncb wrote:
| There is a github repo for the project, it's just private
| still.
|
| I don't have any real experience with open sourcing projects
| outside releasing a few small things with MIT licenses (none
| of which had any real activity from others)--so while there's
| a good chance I will open source this, I just don't know at
| this point if there are things I need to take into
| consideration that I'm unaware of. Hoping to get some
| feedback on that by posting now.
|
| Edit: haha, okay, answering the revised question:
|
| It's roughly the same thing: lack of knowledge of how open
| source projects 'work'. I guess I have a number of probably
| unfounded paranoid concerns about what would happen if I were
| to open source--which I'm actually _less_ concerned about
| now, but early on I had some ideas about turning the software
| into a business, and I 've had the perception that you need
| to know what you're doing to run a business around an open
| source software product.
| hooande wrote:
| this product looks interesting. just my unsolicited
| opinion, but if your goals are wide adoption and/or
| monetization you're probably better off open sourcing this.
| I can't say how useful it is or isn't without playing with
| it on my projects. but if it's as good as it looks and easy
| to use, you'll see stars on github and that will open up a
| lot of options
| dandelo1953 wrote:
| Yo!
|
| I'm willing to volun-tribute my time to play MITM between
| you and GOOG queries to do the grunt work in researching
| options in how best to open this thing up.
|
| I've got some big plans that I am hoping to get my employer
| on board with so I can finally make my first attempt at
| spinning up my current variation of the always just out of
| reach, Tantalus's unicorn.
|
| Not sure if my contact is retrievable thru my public HN
| acct bits. If not, I'll check back here and provide if
| there's interest in at least shooting the shinola with
| another like mind for a minute.
|
| CHeeers
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