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If that's the most important point I fail to understand why it's #1 Hacker News, sorry. This makes HN no better than a "hype engine" as some say. If someone w
by felideon 15y ago
If that's the most important point I fail to understand why it's #1 Hacker News, sorry. This makes HN no better than a "hype engine" as some say. If someone would at least mention that Google Closure makes it pretty neat, then I would have let it go, so to say.
Even worse, two other relevant Clojure libs are mentioned and the important point is still "it's Clojure"?
- brehaut 15y agoThe other libraries are clojure libs that implement javascript analogies[1] as clojure macros and functions and generate javascript. ClojureScript is a Clojure The Language compiler that implements Clojure (its datastructures, standard lib, protocols, deftypes etc etc) and is hosted[2] on javascript rather than the JVM. In ClojureScript you are not writing reskinned javascript, you are writing Clojure. [1] simplified for the argument [2] By outputting javascript
- felideon 15y agoAha! Great, this is definitely pretty awesome. I don't think anyone's written something like that in Common Lisp yet.