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> You get a kick of doing everything in Clojure I'm a fan of Clojure, but having this is the first reason to try an app is unattractive. It's saying that this
by hirundo 8y ago
> You get a kick of doing everything in Clojure
I'm a fan of Clojure, but having this is the first reason to try an app is unattractive. It's saying that this project is first about the technology and second about solving your problems. That's fine and I wish them luck. But for those of us who aren't enthusiasts but just use editors to get work done it's a dissonant sales pitch.
- shawn 8y agoA lot of the reason for creating something new, besides money, is to do something because it’s fun. It’s regrettable that the rise of programming in business has transformed most of programming into business. Nowadays it seems hard to present a new project as done-for-fun without being bucketed into the category of “not serious.” HN was arguably created because it was fun to design programming languages.
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- Scarbutt 8y agoSo you think an editor made primarly to write clojure, extended with clojure and that is aimed first at clojure users, shouldn't mentioned it is written in Clojure and that that is an uninteresting detail to clojure users? Also, he clearly says way more than that in the readme, so your argument is a straw man.
- owl57 8y agoIt says "Emacs-inspired" on the tin. So, it shouldn't really be just an editor. It should be an editor-shaped interactive environment for some language. Sure, it would be nice for this environment to contain a good enough editor to be mistaken for one, like GNU Emacs sometimes is. Liquid is much younger and doesn't seem to have gotten to this part of wishlist yet.
- s17n 8y agoI think it's pretty clear that the editor isn't intended for people who aren't enthusiasts and just want an editor to get work done.