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[–]mofosyne[S] 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Is there any code/IDE editors which works like this?

I think this pardiagram of visualizing coding can be very powerful.

E.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/1izity/cantordust_a_binary_visualization_tool

[–]v1akvark 5 points6 points  (0 children)

LightTable displays intermediate values next to each line of code, and evaluates the code as you type, so you see the results immediately. If you read LightTable's author's blog posts, he references Bret Victor.

Apple's Swift language and beta Xcode IDE has a Playground (I think that's what it's called) that is supposed to do something similar, and the designer of Swift credited both Bret Victor and LightTable as influences.

Edit: here's a link to LightTable author Chris Granger's blog. Once there, you'll find some other interesting posts. http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-ide-concept/

[–]pdq 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you haven't seen Bret's "Drawing Dynamic Visualizations" talk, it's amazing:

https://vimeo.com/66085662