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Thanks for the reply. While you're here, I'll say that your resources for the CLI stuff made it possible to use those tools at all (for my current Clojure team

by bm3719 5y ago

Thanks for the reply. While you're here, I'll say that your resources for the CLI stuff made it possible to use those tools at all (for my current Clojure team) several years ago. depstar also is a great resource. We had to scour the internet and engage in weeks of teeth grinding to get CLI/deps to do all the things our project needed.

seancorfield 5y ago
Thank you. As someone who follows the (b)leading edge of Clojure and its tooling very closely -- and has run alphas of Clojure itself in production since 2011 -- it's very hard for me now to put myself in the shoes of someone coming new to this tooling (unfortunately). I think perhaps the biggest issue for most people is discoverability: how do I learn about the tools I need to get "task X" done with the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and associated "stuff". Even though I created clj-new (and boot-new, on which it is based, which in turn was based on lein's new), I pretty much never use it myself, except for quick examples to test stuff and/or help beginners with. I always start a project from scratch with an empty deps.edn and an initial src/myns/myfile.clj or similar. I use depstar heavily but I strongly suspect that it will ultimately go away as tools.build matures to the point where all the special cases that depstar handles today are folded into t.b.api/jar and t.b.api/uber -- I don't want to maintain something that duplicates what the core team have poured so much time, effort, and careful thought into! I'm already contemplating a "reboot" of clj-new as a very simple wrapper around t.b.api/copy-dir with some simple templates -- since that's most of what clj-new does (even the more complex template-running stuff is really only a slight augmentation of t.b.api's create-basis + java-command + process).

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Thanks for the reply. While you're here, I'll say that your resources for the CLI stuff made it possible to use those tools at all (for my current Clojure team

by bm3719 5y ago

seancorfield 5y ago
Thank you. As someone who follows the (b)leading edge of Clojure and its tooling very closely -- and has run alphas of Clojure itself in production since 2011 -- it's very hard for me now to put myself in the shoes of someone coming new to this tooling (unfortunately). I think perhaps the biggest issue for most people is discoverability: how do I learn about the tools I need to get "task X" done with the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and associated "stuff". Even though I created clj-new (and boot-new, on which it is based, which in turn was based on lein's new), I pretty much never use it myself, except for quick examples to test stuff and/or help beginners with. I always start a project from scratch with an empty deps.edn and an initial src/myns/myfile.clj or similar. I use depstar heavily but I strongly suspect that it will ultimately go away as tools.build matures to the point where all the special cases that depstar handles today are folded into t.b.api/jar and t.b.api/uber -- I don't want to maintain something that duplicates what the core team have poured so much time, effort, and careful thought into! I'm already contemplating a "reboot" of clj-new as a very simple wrapper around t.b.api/copy-dir with some simple templates -- since that's most of what clj-new does (even the more complex template-running stuff is really only a slight augmentation of t.b.api's create-basis + java-command + process).