> And, yes, I am a bit of a masochist for having an Emacs / Leiningen / Clojure > environment on Windows XP :) Lol :-) Happy new year! Mimmo > > Sean Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > > From: Sean Corfield <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, December 27, 2015 at 12:02 PM > To: <[email protected]>, Clojure Mailing List > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ClojureScript] Re: [ANN] modern-cljs - 17th tutorial - REPLing > with Enlive > > Sven Richter wrote on Friday, December 25, 2015 at 1:08 PM: > Maybe they changed something within the file access code in W10. > > This appears to be the case, yes. The issue on Windows 7 (and earlier — and > maybe still on Windows 8?) is one that has caused countless problems for JVM > based tooling that I’ve mentioned over the years: holding onto file locks too > long and not allowing open files to be deleted. > > Still I want to argue that a lot of business runs on Windows, especially > development environments. > > I would say it’s more likely that the sort of businesses that would run > Clojure are also more likely to be using Mac or Linux for development work, > but I certainly understand your point. I’ve only worked at a couple of > companies over my entire 30+ year career that have used Windows for > development, and one of those was a very conservative insurance-related > business (the only company I’ve ever worked at where the product I was > building actually had to run on a desktop computer). The other was Macromedia > where the default laptop was Windows but you could opt for a Mac if you > wanted (I started with a Toshiba but it quickly fell apart so I opted for a > MacBook Pro to replace it) — we targeted *nix servers for everything my team > built. > > One of my big complaints about Boot when it first appeared was that Windows > was very much a second-class citizen for that project, but now — on Windows > 10 at least — Boot is very smooth to install and use on Windows. For a long > time, Leiningen also treated Windows as a bit of a second-class citizen (the > packaged installer made it much better, since you no longer need a > third-party curl/wget installed just to use the Leiningen .bat script). > > Sean Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN > An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ > > "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." > -- Margaret Atwood > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
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