Re: slackpocalypse?
FWIW my research group used Slack for a while, but we switched to Discourse close to two years ago and have been quite happy with it (https://push-language.hampshire.edu, although only a tiny subset is publicly viewable). We're a much smaller community, with different needs, but still, I can attest to Discourse being nice in several ways. Among other things, it seems to encourage more deliberative interactions than I generally see on Slack, with a better mix of rapid communication with longer-term documentation. -Lee > On May 19, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Mars0i wrote: > > I have no opinion, but fwiw the OCaml folks began experimenting with > Discourse about a week ago: https://discuss.ocaml.org. > > This isn't really an IRC/Slack style platform, afaics, but the discussions > that led up to it included concern about Slack's message limit. (These > discussions can be found on the Google OCaml Aggregation list starting last > summer.) -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Clojure as a first programming language?
> On Dec 4, 2016, at 7:17 PM, Nathan Smutz wrote: > I've heard there have been some attempts at error-mesaage translators. Does > anyone have a recommendation? Colin Fleming has done some nice work on this in Cursive. He gave a talk on it at Clojure Conj 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4haSH2xcs > If you're new to tooling, and want to try Clojure right away, I strongly > recomend Oakes' Nightcode. [...] beginner-friendly parenthesis management > [...] Nightcode used to be my recommendation for total newbies, and I used it in my courses to teach beginners. But in the current versions of Nightcode, parinfer is always on, which in my opinionated opinion is the antithesis of beginner-friendly parenthesis management. It is wonderfully clever and some people love it, but in my experience it's not at all beginner-friendly to interfere with the student's existing typing skills and expectations in the way that paredit does, or especially in the way that parinfer does. I spend a fair bit of time evaluating and re-evaluating clojure environment options for new programmers. There are a bunch of really great tools out there, but from my perspective none of them currently quite nails all of the requirements in this area. FWIW my currently favored approach is to use a modified version of Gorilla REPL: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/clojure/Rqsc8j3rJS8/ehAw4ut4BwAJ. But I am always on the hunt for better alternatives, and I am currently planning to revisit Proto REPL (in Atom), following a nice talk on it by Jason Gilman at Clojure Conj 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buPPGxOnBnk -Lee -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
