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Would you articulate why it's a "no go" for you? Leiningen[1] takes away 99.9% of the pain of having to work directly with javac, maven, classpaths, etc. And l

Would you articulate why it's a "no go" for you? Leiningen[1] takes away 99.9% of the pain of having to work directly with javac, maven, classpaths, etc. And lein-cljsbuild[2] offers a configuration-driven approach to compiling and testing. It's perfectly possible to create setups where node (plus grunt, gulp, shell scripts, make, etc.) "drives" leiningen, and vice versa. About a year ago I contributed such a setup[3] to David Nolen's mori library. [1] http://leiningen.org/ http://leiningen.org/ [2] https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild [3] https://github.com/swannodette/mori/blob/master/package.json#L41 https://github.com/swannodette/mori/blob/master/package.json...

jkrems 13y ago
Because if other parts of your stack don't depend on Java, you have the overhead of having to install a complete java environment (on dev machines, CI, ...) just for compiling your front-end code. It also makes "language independent" tooling for javascript harder. Then again: I guess most people who use clojurescript are already using clojure so it wouldn't be a problem for them.
- michaelsbradley 13y ago
  Getting the JVM installed requires very little effort. On ubuntu linux, for example, apt-get can be used to install openjdk or Oracle's distribution. Travis CI provides java (with a choice of JDKs) in its testing environments. So, I understand your point, but the installation "overhead" seems more like a mole hill, hardly amounting to even a speed-bump sized obstacle.
  - jkrems 13y ago
    I recently had write up for a README how to install the JDK and set it up correctly on OSX. You'd be surprised. Thanks to Oracle's policies it isn't even close to where other runtimes/sdks are (e.g. installing ruby, node, gcc, go, ocaml).
    - michaelsbradley 13y ago
      With homebrew and homebrew-cask installed on Mac OS 10.9, I was simply able to do: brew cask install java That might not cover the bases for every Java developer's needs, but leiningen seems to work fine with the resulting installation.
      - jkrems 13y ago
        I'll have to look into versions (gotta be java7) but that looks pretty great - thanks!

jkrems 13y ago

Because if other parts of your stack don't depend on Java, you have the overhead of having to install a complete java environment (on dev machines, CI, ...) just for compiling your front-end code. It also makes "language independent" tooling for javascript harder. Then again: I guess most people who use clojurescript are already using clojure so it wouldn't be a problem for them.

michaelsbradley 13y ago
Getting the JVM installed requires very little effort. On ubuntu linux, for example, apt-get can be used to install openjdk or Oracle's distribution. Travis CI provides java (with a choice of JDKs) in its testing environments. So, I understand your point, but the installation "overhead" seems more like a mole hill, hardly amounting to even a speed-bump sized obstacle.
- jkrems 13y ago
  I recently had write up for a README how to install the JDK and set it up correctly on OSX. You'd be surprised. Thanks to Oracle's policies it isn't even close to where other runtimes/sdks are (e.g. installing ruby, node, gcc, go, ocaml).
  - michaelsbradley 13y ago
    With homebrew and homebrew-cask installed on Mac OS 10.9, I was simply able to do: brew cask install java That might not cover the bases for every Java developer's needs, but leiningen seems to work fine with the resulting installation.
    - jkrems 13y ago
      I'll have to look into versions (gotta be java7) but that looks pretty great - thanks!