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I recall he was big into SBCL, but most IT organizations wanted all code to run on the JVM or CLR. So he had to make a Lisp to run on the JVM and Armed Bear Com

I recall he was big into SBCL, but most IT organizations wanted all code to run on the JVM or CLR. So he had to make a Lisp to run on the JVM and Armed Bear Common Lisp apparently wasn't exactly what he wanted. I want to learn Clojure, but there are definitely some road blocks. I don't have the time for Emacs, it'd be a pain to get a Cursive license (although the cost is extremely reasonable I'd have to do paperwork at work), and I don't know the JVM or Java well.

tosh 7y ago
Visual Studio Code, Atom and Vim also have great Clojure support. (edit: might be worth to add editors and IDEs to the Clojure landing page to illustrate that there are many solid options by now) With ClojureScript you can leverage JavaScript runtimes like browsers. The ClojureScript testsuite also passes using the recently released hermes runtime (https://twitter.com/mfikes/status/1149360258994847745 https://twitter.com/mfikes/status/1149360258994847745) edit: Just wanted to add that being familiar with Java or the JVM isn't necessary to get into Clojure. It definitely is not a prerequisite :)
- 6thaccount2 7y ago
  I'll have to check out the Atom and VSCode options. Thanks for the heads up. Basically all I need is paredit, some basic intellisense, and be able to see the project heirachy. I like the idea of Clojurescript, but don't currently have any reason to do web development.
  - didibus 7y ago
    If that's all you need, I think Nightcode will do: https://sekao.net/nightcode/ https://sekao.net/nightcode/ It's a simple Clojure IDE written in Clojure.
slifin 7y ago
If you're learning Clojure then you can use cursive for free until you go commercial with it?
- 6thaccount2 7y ago
  I believe there is a limited trial yes, but corporate IT always has hoops to go through
vnorilo 7y ago
In addition to the editors others have suggested, I've been quite happy writing Clojure in Sublime Text. In ST, you might want the lispindent and paredit plugins on top of the main Clojure plugin.

tosh 7y ago

Visual Studio Code, Atom and Vim also have great Clojure support. (edit: might be worth to add editors and IDEs to the Clojure landing page to illustrate that there are many solid options by now) With ClojureScript you can leverage JavaScript runtimes like browsers. The ClojureScript testsuite also passes using the recently released hermes runtime (https://twitter.com/mfikes/status/1149360258994847745 https://twitter.com/mfikes/status/1149360258994847745) edit: Just wanted to add that being familiar with Java or the JVM isn't necessary to get into Clojure. It definitely is not a prerequisite :)

6thaccount2 7y ago
I'll have to check out the Atom and VSCode options. Thanks for the heads up. Basically all I need is paredit, some basic intellisense, and be able to see the project heirachy. I like the idea of Clojurescript, but don't currently have any reason to do web development.
- didibus 7y ago
  If that's all you need, I think Nightcode will do: https://sekao.net/nightcode/ https://sekao.net/nightcode/ It's a simple Clojure IDE written in Clojure.

slifin 7y ago

If you're learning Clojure then you can use cursive for free until you go commercial with it?

6thaccount2 7y ago
I believe there is a limited trial yes, but corporate IT always has hoops to go through

vnorilo 7y ago

In addition to the editors others have suggested, I've been quite happy writing Clojure in Sublime Text. In ST, you might want the lispindent and paredit plugins on top of the main Clojure plugin.