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Proto REPL has some great features in its earliest incarnations. Kudos to Jason for such a great start. The drill-down pretty printed eval output is very cool.
by markc 10y ago
Proto REPL has some great features in its earliest incarnations. Kudos to Jason for such a great start. The drill-down pretty printed eval output is very cool. And I love the built in charting/graphing plugin and how easy it is to use within this IDE.
I'm an Emacs/CIDER hardcore, so it takes a lot to sway me to try something new.
I'm looking forward to this being refined to the point of fully usable for daily work. The Clojure community would really benefit from a "just works" IDE - especially for ClojureBridge where we need to get people up and running quickly and without teaching them a new editor. Nightcode, and now Proto REPL seem like leading candidates.
Current minor quibbles:
* Eval of charting expressions creates 2 tabs each time.
* Eval popup gets truncated if size exceeds size of frame
* Several charting examples either render improperly or throw exceptions. This may just be version incompatibilities.
Some of these may be pilot error. I'll confirm and try to report the bugs soon.
I must say, I miss paredit. Parinfer (at least in this incarnation) drives me completely bonkers, especially in indent mode. It's magic, but horrible evil black magic that works "sometimes" and steals and inserts closing ])} willy nilly. I guess I'll just turn it off unless someone can testify that it can become tolerable with more experience.
Again, great work Jason.
- thetophs 10y agoFYI I've been using proto-repl, parinfer, and lisp-paredit in Atom and like that combination. If you like paredit more you can do without parinfer all together and get the paredit experience you're used to.
- markc 10y agoThanks. After some more effort I found out much of my frustration was due some bugs and some bad config settings. Lisp-paredit is buggy for me (must use a shortcut twice to get one motion, can't hold down modifier keys when changing direction e.g. from slurp to barf). Very troublesome. Also lisp-paredit strict mode fights with parinfer, so you must turn it off to get the expected parinfer paren closing behaviors. I'll give parinfer some more time to sink in now that I have it working better. Adding some familiar paredit keybindings (to keymap.cson) helps a lot too: 'atom-text-editor[data-grammar~="clojure"]': 'ctrl-right': 'lisp-paredit:slurp-forwards' 'ctrl-left': 'lisp-paredit:barf-forwards' 'ctrl-alt-right': 'lisp-paredit:barf-backwards' 'ctrl-alt-left': 'lisp-paredit:slurp-backwards'