On 22/03/2010, at 9:28 AM, e wrote: > And don't get me started on trying to get emacs or vi all hooked up on my > mac. I've never succeeded.
I'm about to use Clojure commercially, but it's been a frustrating exercise getting setup. I've ended up using LaClojure on IntelliJ, but that wasn't trivial because of a plugin versioning issue. CCW doesn't autoindent (I know that's coming) and I've been unable to get Enclojure's project REPL to work when using Clojure 1.2. I had a stretch of using almost Emacs exclusively for 15 years, but compared to any IDE thats absolutely not newbie friendly, and not as good as an IDE IMO. In any case, the package manager hangs 80% of the time trying to grab stuff from the net. IMHO a significant sociological issue is that so many clojure devs use Emacs, are coming at this from a 'rebirth-of-lisp' POV, and seem to have adopted the cultural values of Lisp when it comes to development practices. To be successful however Clojure needs to adopt 'mainstream' values - introduce just one 'different' thing i.e. the language, rather than expecting people to adopt both the language, and a different development environment / toolchain e.g. leiningen etc (which IMO is classic NIH). You can't cross the chasm with too much baggage. Personally I don't believe this will happen unless core developers use the tools and practices that users want to use. The end-user itches and the developer itches need to be aligned. Just my $0.02. Antony Blakey ------------- CTO, Linkuistics Pty Ltd Ph: 0438 840 787 It's amazing that the one side of the conversation that survived is "I don't know art, but I know what I like". The reply from the artist was "Madam, so does a cow". -- Carl Kirkendall -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
