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A few of these things may differ from when you tried Clojure out last: > The fact that Leiningen is both the go-to and unofficial was a tad bewildering. Cloju

by tekacs 7y ago

A few of these things may differ from when you tried Clojure out last: > The fact that Leiningen is both the go-to and unofficial was a tad bewildering. Clojure now has an official, built-in CLI that mostly supersedes Leiningen. You can just install Clojure itself, create a 'deps.edn' (which can be as simple as '{}') and get going at a REPL by running 'clojure' or 'clj'. Packages are auto-installed - in some ways I find it even easier than node, where npm is a separate tool/install sometimes. :) > Once I got set up, the development experience in VSCode was also quite underwhelming. There's a VSCode editor plugin called Calva[2] which has developed pretty thoroughly over the last year or so. Outside of IntelliJ/Cursive, it's starting to become one of the more feature-complete systems and it has plenty of features that you'd expect. [1]: https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli [2]: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterthantomorrow.calva https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=betterth...

_bxg1 7y ago
I believe Calva is what I used, but it's entirely possible that it's gotten better since then
- tekacs 7y ago
  > it didn't offer much beyond indentation and inline eval (the latter was cool, but the lack of basics like autocomplete outweighed it) It definitely has intellisense/autocomplete now, so that at least is one point of difference from when you last saw it. :)
  - _bxg1 7y ago
    Good to know!
- dimitar 7y ago
  It saw some major releases and inprovements in 2019, it is worth revisiting imo
dimovich 7y ago
Yes, the official Clojure build tool (deps.edn) is amazing. The ability to use local projects as deps is very useful. It allows to split your bigger project into smaller projects and reuse them. It's also possible to use directly git repos as deps which is useful for trying the latest libs. This, coupled with a REPL driven development gives you a very interactive and agile dev experience.

by tekacs 7y ago

_bxg1 7y ago

I believe Calva is what I used, but it's entirely possible that it's gotten better since then

tekacs 7y ago
> it didn't offer much beyond indentation and inline eval (the latter was cool, but the lack of basics like autocomplete outweighed it) It definitely has intellisense/autocomplete now, so that at least is one point of difference from when you last saw it. :)
- _bxg1 7y ago
  Good to know!
dimitar 7y ago
It saw some major releases and inprovements in 2019, it is worth revisiting imo

dimovich 7y ago

Yes, the official Clojure build tool (deps.edn) is amazing. The ability to use local projects as deps is very useful. It allows to split your bigger project into smaller projects and reuse them. It's also possible to use directly git repos as deps which is useful for trying the latest libs. This, coupled with a REPL driven development gives you a very interactive and agile dev experience.