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Code-GUI bidirectional editing via LSP

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238 points jamesbvaughan | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 16:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.471s | source
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jasonjmcghee ◴[01 Jul 25 20:34 UTC] No.44437770[source]▶
Hey nice - this stuff is so much fun to me. I've worked a number of experiments like this too, especially related to live coding. Love seeing it in the wild.

I built a small project where you can live-code Love2D. The running program updates in real time (no saving needed) and see all values update in real-time, via LSP.

https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/livelove

And also added the same kind of interactivity like a number slider and color picker that replace text inline, like yours (though via vs code extension: https://gist.github.com/jasonjmcghee/17a404bbf15918fda29cf69...)

Here's another experiment where I made it so you could "drag and drop" to choose a position for something by manipulating the editor / replacing a computed position with a static one, on keypress.

https://clj.social/@jason/113550406525463981

There's so much cool stuff you can do here.

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1. phatskat ◴[02 Jul 25 07:46 UTC] No.44441131[source]▶
I’ve been wanting to get into game programming and was looking at Love2D. I don’t know much Lua outside of what I’ve picked up with NeoVim configs.

This looks like it could be a great way to get my feet wet - I don’t do well with math and physics programming, but I used to make things in Flash back in the day that were similar to the particles demo and being able to quickly change things and see the updates makes it a lot easier for me to grok. Thanks for sharing!

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2. jasonjmcghee ◴[02 Jul 25 16:21 UTC] No.44445598[source]▶
Do it! It's a lot of fun.

Highly recommend adding code definitions https://github.com/LuaCATS/love2d

And getting the lua LSP.

It reminds me a lot of processing / p5js. So easy to get something fun up and running quickly.