Code Bubbles: Rethinking the User Interface Paradigm of Integrated Development Environments

Code Bubbles is a novel user interface for IDEs based on fragments, rather than files.

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http://www.codebubbles.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• code bubbles
• java
• fragments
• IDE
• user interface
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[SuperLlama53]

I want this for C++...

[puolalainen44]

This video has sound!!!!! Oh shit!!!!!!

[fbudinichd]

@Magnetohydrodynamics show me something then, I already told you. If it's better i'll just use it instead and overcome the fact that there is no community around it.

Now i'm left wondering if you are a chatbot coded in haskell...

[fbudinichd]

@Magnetohydrodynamics I know mate, but I would really like to see an implementation that motivates me to do something with it. After all, the fact that everyone is using something, makes it easier to troubleshoot your issues. I would gladly drop any tech if I get to see an advantage so big that it makes me forget the lack of support.

[Magnetohydrodynamics]

@fbudinichd Anything that is not Java helps against Java. Except C++. C++ is actually worse.

And the only reason Java and C++ are still used is Bereaucratic Interia. They have _no_ merits that isn't bested by another language except sheer usage.

Just because everybody is doing it doesn't make it smart.

[emilee2u]

Certainly not impressed. When bubble bursts then what?

[fbudinichd]

@Magnetohydrodynamics It does not help your argument the fact that this whole frontend is wrote in Js.

[derrickccoetzee]

@moozax You asked "Looks cool... but is it actually sensible?" The paper has an evaluation section that shows people debugging problems significantly faster using it.

[derrickccoetzee]

@lkartaltepe Check out the original paper - for really long methods they automatically collapse sections of code until it fits in the bubble (vertical elision). If you expand a bunch of them and make the bubble too big, it eventually gets a vertical scrollbar.

[derrickccoetzee]

@geertjohan They've got a Visual Studio plug-in now, and say there's going to be a Code Bubble Beta soon! Google up the Code Bubbles page at Andrew Bragdon's site.

[Magnetohydrodynamics]

This is all fine, and works well, but does not fix the fact that Java is inherently anti-productive.

Haskell is almost as fast and 100 times more expressive and easier to maintain.

[Hobyx]

I'm impressed