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You might have more experience in this area than I, but is this not the point of the JVM?
by tadfisher 14y ago
You might have more experience in this area than I, but is this not the point of the JVM?
- jfb 14y agoBy targeting the JVM, you are giving up on a native user experience. Makes perfect sense when the user interface of your software is programmatic; insanity when you're trying to make software to be used by humans. Clojure is a good lisp, but hardly reason enough to toss all UI convention for. C + Guile makes about a zillion times more sense.
- tadfisher 14y agoI disagree; you are not tied to Swing or any Java UI toolkit merely by using Clojure on the JVM. You can just as easily integrate with a GTK, Cocoa, and whatever Windows uses. You'll notice how the current Emacs is weird on all three platforms by default (at least they switched the scrollbar position). C/Guile isn't a panacea for a UI frontend, they're entirely orthogonal.