I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
What problem does this solve? PHP already has a REPL, and most frameworks have a command-line tool to invoke it with their stuff loaded.
Given that to use a remote environment, you have to configure Tinker to use an SSH connection... why not use the SSH connection yourself, and the existing REPL?
The only thing I can think of that it has going for it is that it's one central place to organise these sort of connections. But I don't know how many people want that, given that it's still another separate tool to do what you already do. I see it has integration with two IDEs and a text editor. That's pretty limited. Two of those are closed-source, too.
Usually the selling point of these sort of apps is that they keep you away from the command line - like how so many people went on about the Less app which would watch directories for changes and was such a boon to developers, but really all it did was run less --watch and cost you $1.
Additionally, I'm not sure what its license is. It says that to get it you buy a license, but not where to download it. BeyondCode talk big about being open source, but this doesn't look like it is. It's worrying me that I can't find out more. I have no idea what it is or whether I'd be able to examine the code until I pay them the cash monies.
It looks like it's closed source. I am strongly against people pitching closed-source apps at Linux users. On the other hand, if it turns out people actually like using this, it should be pretty simple to knock up a free alternative, I guess.
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Back on the ranch, we used to call this "cowboy coding" and didn't consider it a totally great idea.
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What problem does this solve? PHP already has a REPL, and most frameworks have a command-line tool to invoke it with their stuff loaded.
Given that to use a remote environment, you have to configure Tinker to use an SSH connection... why not use the SSH connection yourself, and the existing REPL?
The only thing I can think of that it has going for it is that it's one central place to organise these sort of connections. But I don't know how many people want that, given that it's still another separate tool to do what you already do. I see it has integration with two IDEs and a text editor. That's pretty limited. Two of those are closed-source, too.
Usually the selling point of these sort of apps is that they keep you away from the command line - like how so many people went on about the Less app which would watch directories for changes and was such a boon to developers, but really all it did was run
less --watchand cost you $1.Additionally, I'm not sure what its license is. It says that to get it you buy a license, but not where to download it. BeyondCode talk big about being open source, but this doesn't look like it is. It's worrying me that I can't find out more. I have no idea what it is or whether I'd be able to examine the code until I pay them the cash monies.
It looks like it's closed source. I am strongly against people pitching closed-source apps at Linux users. On the other hand, if it turns out people actually like using this, it should be pretty simple to knock up a free alternative, I guess.
Back on the ranch, we used to call this "cowboy coding" and didn't consider it a totally great idea.