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Interesting, I was just starting to dig into geiser as well! (But for Gerbil scheme, though Kawa is interesting to me as well)

by cnasc 8y ago

anon27893889356 8y ago
I'm interested in kawa for scripting an application I'm trying to make in java/scala. Scala's Ammonite somehow works too and I just wrote one of those dirty hacks to wrap an ammonite repl running in a term window so I could use ammonite's completion and execution in an org-mode buffer to explore/script things. However, sometimes lisps make interactive exploring a little simpler and that's why I initially embedded clojure. Clojure's emacs tooling is spectacular, so much that it feels like I'm actually extending emacs with java libraries. But with clojure I had 2 problems: - embedding a clojure repl the usual way after the update to java 11 started giving some error I couldn't solve. Sure, I could just juse java 8. Or use my project as a jar dependency, but doing java -jar ... and already having a nRepl server running is simpler than adding a jar to the classpath from a repl - licensing: I still don't know which license to use between bsd/apache and gpl, but in case I go with the gpl there is that epl/gpl incompatibility for distribution. However, even for this I think there are workarounds that would be ok for my case The point is that kawa doesn't have these last 2 problems at all, and writing geiser support is a good elisp practice that also produces something that may reveal itself useful later. And that's why I'm interested in continuing the geiser-kawa attempt that https://gitlab.com/mthl https://gitlab.com/mthl posted at https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues/55 https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues/55. I evaluated several other languages/platforms before choosing java, but eventually only java and javascript had the killer library. I went java.

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Interesting, I was just starting to dig into geiser as well! (But for Gerbil scheme, though Kawa is interesting to me as well)

by cnasc 8y ago

Interesting, I was just starting to dig into geiser as well! (But for Gerbil scheme, though Kawa is interesting to me as well)

anon27893889356 8y ago
I'm interested in kawa for scripting an application I'm trying to make in java/scala. Scala's Ammonite somehow works too and I just wrote one of those dirty hacks to wrap an ammonite repl running in a term window so I could use ammonite's completion and execution in an org-mode buffer to explore/script things. However, sometimes lisps make interactive exploring a little simpler and that's why I initially embedded clojure. Clojure's emacs tooling is spectacular, so much that it feels like I'm actually extending emacs with java libraries. But with clojure I had 2 problems: - embedding a clojure repl the usual way after the update to java 11 started giving some error I couldn't solve. Sure, I could just juse java 8. Or use my project as a jar dependency, but doing java -jar ... and already having a nRepl server running is simpler than adding a jar to the classpath from a repl - licensing: I still don't know which license to use between bsd/apache and gpl, but in case I go with the gpl there is that epl/gpl incompatibility for distribution. However, even for this I think there are workarounds that would be ok for my case The point is that kawa doesn't have these last 2 problems at all, and writing geiser support is a good elisp practice that also produces something that may reveal itself useful later. And that's why I'm interested in continuing the geiser-kawa attempt that https://gitlab.com/mthl https://gitlab.com/mthl posted at https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues/55 https://gitlab.com/jaor/geiser/issues/55. I evaluated several other languages/platforms before choosing java, but eventually only java and javascript had the killer library. I went java.