iLemming

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by iLemming 7mo ago
There's a difference between "attempted" and "tried". And from the points you have nitpicked I can confidently say: no, you have not really tried using it in a real, production setting. That is just that obvious. No
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by iLemming 7mo ago
I regret stumbling on Clojure around 2012-2013. I had every chance to learn and work on a big Clojure project with very knowledgeable people yet I looked dead in its eye, right between the parentheses and confidently said: "no, thank y
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Honestly it's so exhausting. Every time Clojure gets mentioned on a broader forum, there's always some ridiculous claim that the Lispy syntax is "un-natural". Other Lisp dialects mostly pass unnoticed, but Clojure being
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Emacs ATX April 2026 meetup [video](youtube.com)
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Ah, here we go again. Every single time Clojure gets mentioned on HN, some clueless egghead comes listing various "issues" without considering holistic, overall experience of using the language for real. Because they effing never
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Your snarky and condescending tone suggests that you perceive some kind of contest between Vim and Emacs for being a "superior" editor. I guess you have never discovered the fundamental truth - Emacs is not an editor, Emacs is a L
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by iLemming 7mo ago
You're oversimplifying the message I'm trying to convey. "you just hire them, someone already raised them" - treats mathematicians as a commodity stock rather than a flow. The conversation frames it as "mathematicia
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Raising, nurturing, training, and mentoring an expert mathematician is not cheap; it never was, perhaps the first time in history when we can witness that rule to change - spinning up a bunch of math-savvy agents, each smarter than Ramanuja
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by iLemming 7mo ago
It's because .json itself has so much useless cruft it's often annoying to deal with. I am forever indebted for younger self forcing me to learn Clojure. Most of the time I choose not even bother with JSON anymore - EDN semantical
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by iLemming 7mo ago
I hope it's not my comment(s) that triggered your anger, still, please accept my apology. > Stallman deserves to be criticized for his own positions. I fully agree. I'm just asking to try to decouple that from Emacs. > becau
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by iLemming 7mo ago
What do you know about "initial expectations" of Typed Clojure specifically? I for one have worked with Ambrose on the same team, he's a good friend of mine and we discussed his dissertation at least a few times. I don't
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Let's see. > JVM bytecodes for dynamic languages You're talkiing about invokedynamic - bytecode instruction added in Java 7, specifically to make dynamic language dispatch efficient, right? Explained simply: JVM was designed fo
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by iLemming 7mo ago
YES! I almost forgot about that. What I love about gptel that I can send a request to an LLM from virtually anywhere - any buffer, even minibuffer. Sometimes I "talk" to AI while typing a message to my colleague. I can ask some mo
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> I never once felt that any AI integration in IDE's was actually worth using over a cli That's right. I started with Claude in the CLI. But then I found a way to hook it up to my active, running instance of Emacs. And since Em
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Does it really matter if AI was used? Is the article substantial? Does it tell a story? Is the narrative engaging? Is it factually accurate? I get that LLMs are still capable of generating slop of nonsense, but when it really doesn't m
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Install ECA. Read my comment in the same thread. Once you hook up elisp evaluating MCP to your Emacs - it is game over for anything else. Nothing even comes close to the experience. I've been functioning in ADD mode - Annoyance-Driven-
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Reading comments I feel you guys (Emacs users) have NO idea. I made a tiny MCP in babashka (I could've done it in Go, Rust or literally any other language, but chose Clojure). So what the MCP does it just evals Elisp in my active Emacs
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> I think they even haven't adopted newer JVM features You don't know what you're talking about. Not only Clojure steadily adopting newer JVM features (for when that makes sense) - java streams, functional interfaces, qual
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> Is Typed.Clojure finally stable and sound? It feels like as if you're operating with a few keywords you picked up without fully understanding the meaning of them. Typed Clojure was a PhD research project. Experimental. CircleCI ex
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> That is because Clojure is done First of all: Clojure is not "done". Latest commits were 3 months ago - https://github.com/clojure/clojure . Secondly, the language intentionally not 'all batteries-in
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by iLemming 7mo ago
One doesn't need to dance around weird circles to give it a try. VSCode's Calva extension has great "Quickstart guide". Or you can just install Clojure, run it - it drops you into a REPL. Once you ready to get serious, g
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Rich Hickey did in "Simple made easy" talk.
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by iLemming 7mo ago
I don't disagree with the general notion of your sentiment. I just wish there was less dragging Stallman's dick behavior into the mix of Emacs-related discourse. Which doesn't happen a lot, still would be ideal if it didn&#x2
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by iLemming 7mo ago
Please don't do this. "editors outlive their creators' reputations/departures" - is a reasonable point. But to make it land as a zinger, you decided to dig up some most inflammatory Stallman material possible, that
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> with its built-in REPL facility brotha... please.. you're making me laugh so hard, my parentheses are shaking and getting unbalanced. Non-lispy langs that "provide REPL facilities" and Lisp dialects share the word "
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by iLemming 7mo ago
If you compare every single language Clojure can emit - Clojure&Java, Clojurescript&Javascript, babashka&Bash, Clojure-Dart&Dart, Jank&C++, Fennel&Lua (even though technically Fennel is only Clojure-like) - the numbe
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> vastly simpler syntax I've been programming for decades. I've used dozens of different, at times enormously esoteric languages. At one point I built ERPs in a language where operators were abbreviated Russian terms. After jus
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by iLemming 7mo ago
I misspoke. I meant of course to say "Claude's logo"
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by iLemming 7mo ago
The Anthropic logo is just Kurt Vonnegut’s drawing of an asshole: https://scienceleadership.org/thumbnail/34729/1920x1920 Just in case if someone still didn't realize - we do live in Idiocracy https:/&#
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by iLemming 7mo ago
> wait for the dust to settle. Yeah, everyone is in panic mode - "they're killing all the horses", but one really needs to consider the similar historical events. When ATMs were rolled out in the 70s, everyone assumed tell

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