Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-06 Thread Didier
> > I think you'd be nuts to choose JVM Clojure over Kotlin for serious > Android development. > Yes, totally, just to clarify: 1) I don't recommend using JVM Clojure for Android development apart for just toy projects. 2) I do recommend using ClojureScript with React Native for Android

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-06 Thread Colin Fleming
Kotlin offers a lot more than just less verbose code and fixing quirks. It's a sufficiently large step up over Java that the experience of using it is completely different, in my experience. The null-safe type system is worth the price of entry alone. I totally recommend it for Android projects.

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-05 Thread Didier
> > ​I know Java and C++. A long time ago I worked with Pascal. > > What I like about Kotlin is that it is less verbose. And Clojure is > of-course even less verbose. :-D > Oh yea, and Kotlin exists pretty much only to address Java's verbosity, and maybe a few small other quirks, and it did a

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-05 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2017-09-03 20:23 GMT+02:00 Didier : > Kotlin is actually officialy supported on Android, so definitly a good > choice there. ​I started with Kotlin. I think I first learn to write some applications for Android and then decide if I want to switch to Clojure(Script). ​ >

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-05 Thread Srihari Sriraman
> Well, in the last 2 years I think React Native has grown quite a bit. So has Clojurescript, and the rapport between them. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/clojure/4wz8d1FJ9tU/rBZpEqt_AAAJ if you're looking for a case-study with some magnitude. My personal experience in building out 3

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-03 Thread Didier
Kotlin is actually officialy supported on Android, so definitly a good choice there. That said, if you know Java, C#, C++, Pascal, or even ActionScript 3, Kotlin brings nothing new to the table conceptually. It does improve on convenience over Java though. So I'd still recommend you also spent

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-03 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2017-09-02 23:55 GMT+02:00 Didier : > Well, in the last 2 years I think React Native has grown quite a bit. I > think if you target Android only, and you need performance, like a game, > going with Java/C is best, or just Unity. > ​Another possibility would be Kotlin. I was

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-02 Thread Didier
Well, in the last 2 years I think React Native has grown quite a bit. I think if you target Android only, and you need performance, like a game, going with Java/C is best, or just Unity. But ClojureScript with ReactNative is great for iOS + Android compatibility for more normal apps. I don't

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-09-02 Thread Cecil Westerhof
2017-08-31 14:46 GMT+02:00 Luke Gessler : > Check out cljsrn . > ​Thanks, but from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVXTcAEKgF8 I understood it is better to go native.​ > On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 5:45:08 AM UTC-5, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> >>

Re: Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-08-31 Thread Luke Gessler
Check out cljsrn . On Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 5:45:08 AM UTC-5, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > It has been a while that I worked with Clojure and I want to pick it up > again. I also want to pick up Android programming. (That is new for me.) I > am thinking about doing

Writing an Android application with Clojure

2017-08-31 Thread Cecil Westerhof
It has been a while that I worked with Clojure and I want to pick it up again. I also want to pick up Android programming. (That is new for me.) I am thinking about doing those together. Would that be doable? Also is writing Android applications with Clojure still viable? Because the