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I still teach in and prototype in Light Table, even though it is losing its "instarepl". Live evaluation visually matched up to an expression removes a lot of t
by pgt 10y ago
I still teach in and prototype in Light Table, even though it is losing its "instarepl". Live evaluation visually matched up to an expression removes a lot of the cognitive load. Clojure stack traces are a big mental overhead.
- zdkl 10y agoThis. I wish the book would refer to lighttable instead of emacs so as to be considerably more portable and easier to get into. I recommended that combo to a non technical friend and he's happily scooting along after a short primer on (lein) repl vs (windows) command prompt vs lighttable inline evaluation
- tosh 10y agoAtom and the ProtoREPL package also make a great Clojure environment. https://gist.github.com/jasongilman/d1f70507bed021b48625 https://gist.github.com/jasongilman/d1f70507bed021b48625
- WillPostForFood 10y agoI've tried just about Clojure IDE/editor, and this is probably my favorite. But still I think it is tough for a beginner. 9 packages to install, editing config files, the ProtoREPL tutorial doesn't include Mac keystrokes. The problem for a beginner is you follow all these steps and you don't if you are doing it right - there is no feedback. Once it is up and running, it is really nice. To be beginner friendly, it would be good to have a packaged installer that pre configures and installs everything, or a single Clojure/ProtoREPL package that could be installed in Atom that includes all the dependent packages, and config changes.