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> I’m not even going to consider a system valid without managing IO in some way. So yes, all flavors of Lisp are off the table as well. We're talking functiona

by sk1pper 10y ago

> I’m not even going to consider a system valid without managing IO in some way. So yes, all flavors of Lisp are off the table as well. We're talking functional in the context of JavaScript, I think ClojureScript deserves more of an explanation on why it doesn't even qualify. That is, if you're trying to hold to the "neutral as possible" thing in the beginning.

pka 10y ago
Clojurescript doesn't have a way of managing IO (i.e. types.)
- iLemming 10y ago
  Clojure has something that arguably better than most static type systems, it has Clojure.spec
  - pka 10y ago
    But it's not static. Pre/postcondition runtime checks can be implemented in a static language as well.
retrogradeorbit 10y ago
Yep. And with that closed mindedness he cuts himself off from trying what IMHO is the best reactive front end ecosystem around today. That is one of the react based clojurescript frontend systems. Sorry, but your amazing, functional, pragamatic system is INVALID. Because I have deemed it so! Good one!
iLemming 10y ago
I agree - Clojurescript is extremely pragmatic, yet quite functional. Tooling is extremely nice, FFI to existing Javascript simple, can be used on both back-end and front-end.