Re: [ANN] clara-rules 0.4 released

2014-02-10 Thread Alan Moore
Ryan,

This release seems to be Clara's best so far - congratulations!

Thank you for maintaining ClojureScript compatibility... while I understand 
that the JVM is likely to be the primary target for rule engine deployment, 
some of us are centered on either browser or nodejs based systems. 
ClojureScript also has many other deployment targets that support 
javascript but not the JVM.

Your new schema based design and ClojureScript support are proving to be 
very helpful in the development of a Clara LightTable plugin.

Alan


On Thursday, February 6, 2014 7:15:58 PM UTC-8, Ryan Brush wrote:

 The 0.4.0 release of Clara is up on Clojars. The github page is at [1].

 The theme of this release is rules as data, which I wrote about at [2]. 
 In a nutshell, all rules and the Rete network itself are defined by 
 well-defined data structures (via Prismatic Schema), which opens a lot of 
 doors:

 * Alternate front ends to Clara can now be written, generating rules in 
 the schema-compliant format. If the defrule-style DSL isn't your thing, 
 you can generate rules via any mechanism you want.
 * Tooling can now be written to inspect the rules and their relationships, 
 with some examples in the blog at [2].
 * The Rete network itself is also a schema-defined data structure, opening 
 the door for visualizing the working memory itself. 

 There are some breaking changes for the ClojureScript support: I moved the 
 logic to generate a Rete network in ClojureScript to be driven at compile 
 time...meaning we can assemble an optimized network on the server, rather 
 than having the client do that computation every time it loads. Details and 
 an example are linked at [3]. I haven't yet used the ClojureScript version 
 in anger, but am maintaining it because there is interest and it's cool 
 to see this running in a browser. ;)

 I expect future releases to be smaller and more frequent. Getting Clara on 
 a solid basis of well-defined structures was a significant effort, but I 
 think it puts it in a stronger position with a number of advantages over 
 existing rule engines.

 [1]
 https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules
 [2]
 http://www.toomuchcode.org/blog/2014/01/19/rules-as-data/
 [3]
 https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules/wiki/ClojureScript


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Re: [ANN] clara-rules 0.4 released

2014-02-07 Thread Michael Fogus
 The theme of this release is rules as data

Yay!

Great job Ryan.  I look forward to checking out your changes.


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Ryan Brush rbr...@gmail.com wrote:
 The 0.4.0 release of Clara is up on Clojars. The github page is at [1].

 The theme of this release is rules as data, which I wrote about at [2]. In
 a nutshell, all rules and the Rete network itself are defined by
 well-defined data structures (via Prismatic Schema), which opens a lot of
 doors:

 * Alternate front ends to Clara can now be written, generating rules in the
 schema-compliant format. If the defrule-style DSL isn't your thing, you
 can generate rules via any mechanism you want.
 * Tooling can now be written to inspect the rules and their relationships,
 with some examples in the blog at [2].
 * The Rete network itself is also a schema-defined data structure, opening
 the door for visualizing the working memory itself.

 There are some breaking changes for the ClojureScript support: I moved the
 logic to generate a Rete network in ClojureScript to be driven at compile
 time...meaning we can assemble an optimized network on the server, rather
 than having the client do that computation every time it loads. Details and
 an example are linked at [3]. I haven't yet used the ClojureScript version
 in anger, but am maintaining it because there is interest and it's cool to
 see this running in a browser. ;)

 I expect future releases to be smaller and more frequent. Getting Clara on a
 solid basis of well-defined structures was a significant effort, but I think
 it puts it in a stronger position with a number of advantages over existing
 rule engines.

 [1]
 https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules
 [2]
 http://www.toomuchcode.org/blog/2014/01/19/rules-as-data/
 [3]
 https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules/wiki/ClojureScript

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[ANN] clara-rules 0.4 released

2014-02-06 Thread Ryan Brush
The 0.4.0 release of Clara is up on Clojars. The github page is at [1].

The theme of this release is rules as data, which I wrote about at [2]. 
In a nutshell, all rules and the Rete network itself are defined by 
well-defined data structures (via Prismatic Schema), which opens a lot of 
doors:

* Alternate front ends to Clara can now be written, generating rules in the 
schema-compliant format. If the defrule-style DSL isn't your thing, you 
can generate rules via any mechanism you want.
* Tooling can now be written to inspect the rules and their relationships, 
with some examples in the blog at [2].
* The Rete network itself is also a schema-defined data structure, opening 
the door for visualizing the working memory itself. 

There are some breaking changes for the ClojureScript support: I moved the 
logic to generate a Rete network in ClojureScript to be driven at compile 
time...meaning we can assemble an optimized network on the server, rather 
than having the client do that computation every time it loads. Details and 
an example are linked at [3]. I haven't yet used the ClojureScript version 
in anger, but am maintaining it because there is interest and it's cool 
to see this running in a browser. ;)

I expect future releases to be smaller and more frequent. Getting Clara on 
a solid basis of well-defined structures was a significant effort, but I 
think it puts it in a stronger position with a number of advantages over 
existing rule engines.

[1]
https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules
[2]
http://www.toomuchcode.org/blog/2014/01/19/rules-as-data/
[3]
https://github.com/rbrush/clara-rules/wiki/ClojureScript

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