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by aria 13y ago
Other languages can totally have macros, but unless you have homoiconicity, which lisp languages do, macros aren't easy to use or support. In ClojureScript, macros are built into the language.
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by aria 13y ago
No. We're not trying to do something pure on top of the DOM. That isn't feasible for performant manipulation. Being functional is about more than just immutability. We use standard manipulation.
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by aria 13y ago
ClojureScript generates a little more ephemeral garbage than native JavaScript and the Clojure data structures are slower, but in reality, the bottlenecks tend to be things which cross the DOM barrier and macros can make those bits much mor
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by aria 13y ago
Author here. Happy to answer any questions/concerns.
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by aria 13y ago
I think the most mature thing to do here is get into a pissing match about whose cancer is worse rather than just agree that it's all probably worse than being yelled at. Let's meet under the bridge to discuss.
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by aria 13y ago
Can't argue with logic like that.
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by aria 13y ago
There's no indication that she couldn't endure the silly dress down, just that it was a dick thing to do. Also, lady's been through a ton of shit, including cervical cancer ( https://medium.com/lady-business/67303ff64202 ). So yeah, I think
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by aria 13y ago
Also, she didn't know what he looked like that particular year. Not who he was. Some people just have incomplete photo shrines.
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by aria 13y ago
How dare she have an opinion about management? Seriously. I'm glad you're here to police such matters.
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by aria 13y ago
Um..Shouldn't Steve had yelled at said middle management or at least sussed it out before yelling at engineers?
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by aria 14y ago
Sorry to hear about that. Want to email feedback@getprismatic.com and we'll look into it and try to get it fixed ASAP
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by aria 14y ago
Thanks Chris, I'll look into it based on your recommendation!
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by aria 14y ago
Author here. Happy to answer any questions or concerns!
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by aria 14y ago
It's definitely a complicated language to learn since you have to learn the complexity of (1) Clojure core itself and readjust to functional programming (2) Understand how ClojureScript is translated into JS in order to do interop which wi
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by aria 14y ago
Ah sorry, I didn't see. So the decision about DOM elem vs String is one I'm not 100% sure about, but I think the performance difference is at most like a 10-15% difference which wasn't that compelling to us. So I didn't see a strong reason
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by aria 14y ago
I'd be curious to hear what you're not liking about it.
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by aria 14y ago
We did a post a while back on the frameworks vs. libraries and our overall take on software engineering: http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/4/5/software-engineer...
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by aria 14y ago
Frankly at the moment, we're not using any external clojurescript libraries; we've tried many, but none quite meet our needs or the style we really like. We're internally phasing out jQuery selectors in favor of some code that we'll be rele
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by aria 14y ago
The nice thing about dommy (github.com/prismatic/dommy) is that emacs doesn't need to be changed at all to use it. It's just clojure and all the highlighting and the emacs major mode work. Also out of the box, you get a repl to live test an
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by aria 14y ago
That's a fair point. Really, I think we're making the argument that we prefer data approach to templates (i.e., language-native data structures (maps, arrays, strings)) represent html structure. You can certainly take that approach in JS. d
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by aria 14y ago
No, but I think enlive is great. To me and the team, most of our functions are making Clojure data structures and thinking of templating as converting data to dom elements or HTML strings seems the most compatible with that way of thinking.
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by aria 14y ago
Yeah absolutely. One of the better CLJS features is getting the Google Closure modules and explicit dependencies. We'll probably add dom selectors and/or manipulation and wheter it's the same library as dommy (github.com/prismatic/dommy) or
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by aria 14y ago
Indeed it's not the same language. I wasn't bit by the macro differences (which are probably the largest non-interop difference) since I tend not to use macros in my Clojure or ClojureScript code. Macros are going to be different since the
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by aria 14y ago
While you can use ClojureScript (CLJS) server-side running on say node.js, the largest benefit is as a replacement for client-side JS (ClojureScript converts to JS at compile-time). You can actually use all the libraries you mentioned (jQue
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by aria 14y ago
Author here. Happy to answer any questions or comments.
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Bringing functional to the frontend – Clojure and ClojureScript for the web(blog.getprismatic.com)
120 points by aria 14y ago|60 comments
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by aria 14y ago
Thank you for the kind words! Indeed, the NLP and ML behind Prismatic are pretty intricate. Not just because they use something mathematically sophisticated, but you have to make a lot of good decisions about what can be tackled with a simp
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by aria 14y ago
Prismatic has a much larger vision of bringing together elements from my AI and machine learning research background along with modern interaction design to build smart everyday consumer products. The current app is just the first step in a
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by aria 14y ago
Building Prismatic is way more than just about having a formal ML background. It's that along with large-scale systems skills and having a sixth sense for working with data (text especially) and knowing what simple ideas will work and what
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by aria 14y ago
Thanks! It seems like an obvious thing, but thinking about "operationalizing" intuitions computationally really helped me hone in on what I should be focusing on with research. My advisor Dan Klein was really awesome at teaching that.

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