Re: Clojure community organisation

2015-05-04 Thread Mikera
This is a great initiative. Would love to see an official community organisation. Some things I think are particularly important on the content side: a) Maintain and improve the clojure.org website as the front page for the community b) Produce official user guides and documentation for Clojure

[ANN] lein-jammin

2015-05-04 Thread Zach Tellman
https://github.com/ztellman/lein-jammin This one's pretty simple: you put `lein jammin seconds` in front of any other Leiningen task, and if it gets stuck for the specified duration, it prints out a thread dump. This especially useful for tests, and extra-especially useful for tests in a CI

[ANN, GSoC] A Common Clojure Source Metadata Model

2015-05-04 Thread richard . moehn
Hi all! I'm one of this year's students accepted to the Google Summer of Code for doing a Clojure project. (Thanks to Alex Miller for supporting my application!) For those who like to decide from the first paragraph whether they will read on or not: the goal of my project is to develop a model

Re: [ANN, GSoC] A Common Clojure Source Metadata Model

2015-05-04 Thread richard . moehn
I just saw that the plain text formatting is horrible. Sorry for that. -- 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

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Zubair Quraishi
Also Coils (https://github.com/zubairq/coils) On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 10:43:53 PM UTC+2, g vim wrote: I recently did some research into web frameworks on Github. Here's what I found: FRAMEWORK LANG CONTRIBUTORS COMMITS LuminusClojure28

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-04 Thread adrians
Alan, have you looked at Clasp? I'm not sure if CL is something you like, but maybe it has potential for your application. https://github.com/drmeister/clasp -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sven Richter
So, what I gather from this discussion are the following points. Clojure needs a webframework that is - fully documented - easy for beginners to use - opinionated about the libraries - structured - composable - has something nice like django's admin backend - a vibrant community support - a

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Colin Fleming
Note that the shopping cart is just one specific example from my current itch that needs scratching - it's a very common one, but I'm sure there are plenty more reusable component types that people expect these days. One problem I see with the composition approach (which I'm a huge fan of in

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread John Louis Del Rosario
Very interesting discussion going on here. As a beginner, what I'd like to see is not something like Django or Rails, but something like Flask. Where someone can just (require 'someframework) and it works. Maybe it could have thin wrappers over compojure, etc., since it will need to be

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Andrey Antukh
This is something that I'm currently working on: https://github.com/funcool/catacumba It is still in alpha, but it has the same philosophy that you have mention. Cheers. Andrey 2015-05-04 12:06 GMT+02:00 John Louis Del Rosario joh...@gmail.com: Very interesting discussion going on here. As a

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Johnson
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 4:41:02 AM UTC-4, Sven Richter wrote: All in all this is basically the direction I want to go with closp and closp-crud. The intention is not to have a webframework, but to automatize steps that need to be done manually otherwise. One potential problem with this

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Eric MacAdie
I think what Clojure needs is a default. It doesn't matter if it is a web framework like Rails, or libraries strung together like Luminus. When a Ruby newbie asks how to make a web app, the default answer is to look at Rails. In Python, the default answer is Django. Compared to that, the default

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sven Richter
Am Montag, 4. Mai 2015 14:09:35 UTC+2 schrieb Sean Johnson: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 4:41:02 AM UTC-4, Sven Richter wrote: All in all this is basically the direction I want to go with closp and closp-crud. The intention is not to have a webframework, but to automatize steps that need

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Johnson
I thought about it and all that came to my mind that there simply won't be an upgrade path. Once you generated your code / templates / whatever you are done and up to yourself. Having a supported upgrade path might be 1. to much for one or two persons to handle 2. Incompatible to the generate

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Ernie de Feria
I would like to echo the sentiment expressed by several posters in this thread, but with a slight twist. A few years back I picked up Ruby and Ruby on Rails as the language/framework to create a website with moderate complexity and functionality. I did this without any prior experience with

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread gvim
On 04/05/2015 14:34, Ernie de Feria wrote: I would like to echo the sentiment expressed by several posters in this thread, but with a slight twist. A few years back I picked up Ruby and Ruby on Rails as the language/framework to create a website with moderate complexity and functionality. I did

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Timothy Baldridge
The thing that bugs me the most about these sort of conversations about best practices is that they often present a set of solutions without first analyzing the problem at hand. If I came to this mailing list and asked I want to write a websever in Clojure..what should I use?. The response would

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread gvim
On 04/05/2015 15:24, Timothy Baldridge wrote: The thing that bugs me the most about these sort of conversations about best practices is that they often present a set of solutions without first analyzing the problem at hand. If I came to this mailing list and asked I want to write a websever in

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Prefontaine
+1 This exactly the kind of exercises that needs to done as part of a product design. New potential needs have to be foreseen at this stage, not 18 months after a first release. This is why I hate frameworks, they assume some of these decisions and it's not always stated clearly. Someone has to

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Thiago Massa
My 2 cents: I don't think the biggest problem is that the community is fragmented as there is many options to choose, but that the attitude towards newcomers is bad. Let's say that I was learning clojure about 2 years ago and when I asked about which web framework should I use, people started

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sven Richter
While I totally agree with you on the topic of composing things to solve a problem at hand I think you are talking about a different audience here than the audience such a framework is aiming for. You are talking about experienced developers that know how to solve problems, that know advantages

Why is Caribou unmaintained ?

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Prefontaine
Spawned from the other thread about web frameworks. Can any of the original maintainers answer this one ? Thank you Luc P. -- Luc Prefontainelprefonta...@softaddicts.ca sent by ibisMail! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to

Re: Why is Caribou unmaintained ?

2015-05-04 Thread Fluid Dynamics
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 10:51:35 AM UTC-4, Luc wrote: Spawned from the other thread about web frameworks. Can any of the original maintainers answer this one ? According to that same other thread, it has 2 developers on it, not 0. If it's feature-complete 2 might easily be sufficient to

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Christopher Small
I've been enjoying this thread, but don't currently have the bandwidth to read everyone's messages and figure out in my head what the distribution of opinions is or who is on what side of this conversation. Fortunately, I built a tool for this! It's called pol.is, and it uses real time data

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Marcus Blankenship
Ok, honestly, this is super cool. Well done! On May 4, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Christopher Small metasoar...@gmail.com wrote: I've been enjoying this thread, but don't currently have the bandwidth to read everyone's messages and figure out in my head what the distribution of opinions is or who

Re: Why is Caribou unmaintained ?

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Préfontaine
There's been no activity since a year ago. This may give the impression that it's dead and maybe it still quite alive. If people want a framework this one looks to be very complete. It would be a shame not to reuse all that brain power. More feedback ? On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 10:51:35 AM

juxt/bidi ring question

2015-05-04 Thread clifford
Hi I am using juxt/bidi for route matching. with the following routes: (def routes [/ {index.html :index articles/ {index.html :article-index [:id] :article}}]) It correctly matches at the REPL. (match-route routes

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Christopher Small
Cheers, and thanks :-) It's free, so feel... free to use it :-) On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Marcus Blankenship mar...@creoagency.com wrote: Ok, honestly, this is super cool. Well done! On May 4, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Christopher Small metasoar...@gmail.com wrote: I've been enjoying this

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Kamau
I am currently trying to redirect-after-post with validation errors. I have already cooked up my way of validating maps. However, i cant find a straight forward way for pushing the errors in a 'flash' and then read them in my template (am currently using freemarker.). I have seen the flash

Re: juxt/bidi ring question

2015-05-04 Thread Fluid Dynamics
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 11:34:26 AM UTC-4, clifford wrote: Hi I am using juxt/bidi for route matching. with the following routes: (def routes [/ {index.html :index articles/ {index.html :article-index [:id] :article}}])

Re: juxt/bidi ring question

2015-05-04 Thread Fluid Dynamics
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 11:50:27 AM UTC-4, Fluid Dynamics wrote: On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 11:34:26 AM UTC-4, clifford wrote: Hi I am using juxt/bidi for route matching. with the following routes: (def routes [/ {index.html :index articles/ {index.html

Re: Clojure Async/State Machine/Workflow Libraries?

2015-05-04 Thread Tim Visher
I think I may have summoned the wrong demons when invoking with the `Workflow` keyword. :) I've found some resources on Event-Driven Architecture, mostly from Zach Tellman. Is his stuff the main source of that sort of thing? I realized that prismatic's graph is basically what I'm looking for

Re: [CFP] JavaOne - Clojure submissions welcomed and recommended

2015-05-04 Thread Ghadi Shayban
Just as a (final) reminder, the CFP ends Wednesday night! https://www.oracle.com/javaone/call-for-proposals.html On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 2:56:50 PM UTC-4, Ghadi Shayban wrote: Clojurists, The JavaOne conference, a huge gathering, is taking place in San Francisco on October 25-29th.

Re: [ANN, GSoC] A Common Clojure Source Metadata Model

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Grove
I've been hoping someone would rebuild Codeq https://github.com/Datomic/codeq, now that tools.analyzer (and friends) is out and ClojureScript has made so much progress. Not only would it be useful for diving into a new codebase (I've needed it several times when working with a large, unfamiliar

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Corfield
Not sure what you mean by one flash value — I’d expect you to have a map of flash scope data and that’s the way my FW/1 behaves: you assoc values into the flash scope and they’re restored on the next request. On May 4, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Josh Kamau joshnet2...@gmail.com wrote: I am currently

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Kamau
Thanks Sean. that makes sense. I didnt want that map to be stored as one cookie because it could potentially be big... (there is a 4kb limit per cookie right?) . I will dig into it and check. If that works for me, then all i need is compojure, ring and the awesome ring-defaults middleware. No

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On May 4, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Josh Kamau joshnet2...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Sean. that makes sense. I didnt want that map to be stored as one cookie because it could potentially be big... (there is a 4kb limit per cookie right?) . I will dig into it and check. If that works for me, then all

Re: Why is Caribou unmaintained ?

2015-05-04 Thread Mark Engelberg
There was a thread a while back when (if my memory serves me correctly) one of the creators said the company where Caribou was created is no longer using Clojure, so he didn't think it was likely that he would be adding new features, although he would happily address bug reports. On Mon, May 4,

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Kamau
@Sean, i wanted totally stateless backend. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Sean Corfield s...@corfield.org wrote: On May 4, 2015, at 10:53 AM, Josh Kamau joshnet2...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Sean. that makes sense. I didnt want that map to be stored as one cookie because it could

Re: Why is Caribou unmaintained ?

2015-05-04 Thread Mark Engelberg
Found the thread. It was called Is Caribou dormant? and Justin Smith said: I'm one of the core devs of the Caribou project. Caribou has been less actively developed, but I still use it frequently. We previously were funded to work on Caribou, but the company funding us decided to discontinue

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On May 4, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Josh Kamau joshnet2...@gmail.com wrote: @Sean, i wanted totally stateless backend. Without a database? :) Sean Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ Perfection is the enemy of the good. -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist

[ANN] [Book] ClojureScript Unraveled

2015-05-04 Thread Andrey Antukh
Hi! We (my friend Alejandro and I) are happy to announce the first public version of a ClojureScript book that we are writing. The book is still a work in progress and many chapters are not available yet. We are sure that the book has many spelling errors (we are not native English speakers), so

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Andrey Antukh
Yes, without a database, serializing data using JWS or JWE... I have done similar thing with buddy-auth stateless backend. It not uses sessions but the concept is the same. Cheers. Andrey 2015-05-04 20:17 GMT+02:00 Sean Corfield s...@corfield.org: On May 4, 2015, at 11:08 AM, Josh Kamau

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Fluid Dynamics
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 1:53:30 PM UTC-4, Josh Kamau wrote: Thanks Sean. that makes sense. I didnt want that map to be stored as one cookie because it could potentially be big... (there is a 4kb limit per cookie right?) . I will dig into it and check. If that works for me, then all i

Re: [ANN] [Book] ClojureScript Unraveled

2015-05-04 Thread Angel Java Lopez
Great work! I really appreciate http://funcool.github.io/clojurescript-unraveled/#tooling-compiler Now, I started to understand the compiler process Angel Java Lopez @ajlopez On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Andrey Antukh n...@niwi.be wrote: Hi! We (my friend Alejandro and I) are happy to

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On May 4, 2015 7:16 AM, Eric MacAdie emaca...@gmail.com wrote: I think what Clojure needs is a default. It doesn't matter if it is a web framework like Rails, or libraries strung together like Luminus. What Clojure needs is, well nothing. What the market MAY need is an entrepreneur who will

Re: juxt/bidi ring question

2015-05-04 Thread clifford
Thanks @fluiddynamics your right on the money. On Monday, 4 May 2015 17:34:26 UTC+2, clifford wrote: Hi I am using juxt/bidi for route matching. with the following routes: (def routes [/ {index.html :index articles/ {index.html :article-index

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-04 Thread Christopher Small
Using clj-bots/chat is fine with me. If there ends up being much noise with respect to this specific native compilation thread vs the project as a whole, we can set up another gitter channel. Cheers On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Alan Moore kahunamo...@coopsource.org wrote: All, Looks like

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
Someone earlier in the thread wrote about how Ruby was the abstraction in contrast to PHP where libraries were tied to a framework. I've never worked with Rails seriously, but I find it hard to believe that libraries such as shopping carts intended for Rails will work out of the box with

Re: Wrapping org.apache.commons.math3.complex

2015-05-04 Thread Mikera
You often have to do bit of manual coercion to make things work nicely with the whole set of possible Clojure numerical types. Fortunately there are plenty of built-in functions in clojure.core to help you do this. In your specific case I would do: (.add (Complex. 1.0 2.0) (double 2)) This

Re: A more flexible versio of - ?

2015-05-04 Thread Mike Thompson
In addition to what's already been pointed out, on a grander scale there's: https://github.com/LonoCloud/synthread On Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 6:48:34 AM UTC+10, Kaiyin Zhong wrote: Wouldn't be nice to have something like: (- thing (f1 ph arg2 arg3) (f2 arg1 ph arg3)

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-04 Thread Herwig Hochleitner
2015-05-05 2:04 GMT+02:00 Alan Moore kahunamo...@coopsource.org: Herwig - I like your suggestion re: rclojure. That seems like a harder but more fruitful approach than other porting options. Do you have any references to this kind of approach in other languages? It could be argued, that

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
I've taken a couple of long lived Rails apps from Rails 1 to Rails 4 and while there have been breaking changes with each major version change (and some minor versions) in general it's pretty easy to keep up with the latest versions and there are copious docs (even whole ebooks in some

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Luc Préfontaine
I certainly have some personality disorders, but I am not bipolar :) What am I ? Help ! :) Luc P. And never has this author proven that programmers with bipolar personality are programming more LISP then other languages. It's a metaphor. The author is not actually diagnosing Lisp

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Christopher Small
And Flask was inspired by Sinatra, IIRC. Also, the rails folks thought that Sinatra would be a joke and no one would take it seriously. They were surprised. Ditto with Merb, which was a similarly more modular, and became so popular that rails actually merged with it. Clojure's Noir used to be

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
My guess is that over the next 2-3 years we will see some clojure frameworks emerge but they will not be like traditional frameworks. Or the space for web framework will always default to Rails. Clojure certainly has some great frameworks in other areas, such as distributed data

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Daniel Compton
The Clojure community has a knack for looking at things and distilling them to their essence. I think the discussion on whether Clojure needs a web framework is another opportunity for that. I don't think Clojure doesn't need a web framework, because Clojure is a programming language and doesn't

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread blake
Do the advantages you've pointed out apply to teamwork, though? That's supposed to be where frameworks make life easier. Frameworks make life easier for teamwork, sure—as long as everyone knows the framework and has the same (presumably correct =P) understanding of it. In practice here,

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sven Richter
Hi Dmitri, When I was building closp I was taking luminus as the base for it with some minor adoptions. I just had a look at the website of luminus and saw the massive amount of work you put into the documentation again. If that sounds reasonable for you I'd like to try to move closp and

Re: I wrote a functional Lisp in Clojure. Come have a look

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
re: lux -- keen! also, check out http://shenlanguage.org/, it has a clojure target in the works. -- 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

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
Can you elaborate? Lift got it right or was a disaster? oh! good question, sorry :-) i believe it got it far more right than wrong. -- 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

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread gvim
On 04/05/2015 23:17, blake wrote: I went from Ruby to Clojure in short-order and while I struggled mightily with the functional aspect (after assiduously avoiding those concepts for years), I much prefer every aspect of Clojure web programming to Rails. The bible of rails programming is the

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
While I agree that g vim's metrics aren't terribly meaningful, the conclusion he's arriving at is an important one. I think g vim's metrics have some impact with management. Certainly, its worth talking about. A few months ago I was talking to the woman at the New York Times who overseas

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread blake
I went from Ruby to Clojure in short-order and while I struggled mightily with the functional aspect (after assiduously avoiding those concepts for years), I much prefer every aspect of Clojure web programming to Rails. The bible of rails programming is the Hartl book. In the edition I read,

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread gvim
On 04/05/2015 23:49, Raoul Duke wrote: vulnerabilities that would not exist using an integrated framework. fwiw, web + security always makes me think of http://liftweb.net/ Can you elaborate? Lift got it right or was a disaster? gvim -- You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Kyle Cordes
  On May 4, 2015 at 3:51:23 PM, Josh Kamau (joshnet2...@gmail.com(mailto:joshnet2...@gmail.com)) wrote: Another challenge is: There are alot of abandoned libraries and few reach 1.0. That makes selecting the libraries to compose abit difficult. I think this is a key source of trouble.

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
Yes, Play has overtaken Lift, not because it is necessarily better, but because TypeSafe are pouring marketing dollars into it, as part of their drive to encourage Enterprise uptake of Scala. They have a vested interest in Play being very successful as it will drive more business for them.

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Raoul Duke
vulnerabilities that would not exist using an integrated framework. fwiw, web + security always makes me think of http://liftweb.net/ -- 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

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread gvim
On 05/05/2015 00:03, Raoul Duke wrote: Can you elaborate? Lift got it right or was a disaster? oh! good question, sorry :-) i believe it got it far more right than wrong. I've been pretty impressed with Scala's main framework, Play 2. There seems to be a lot of momentum behind their

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Sean Corfield
On May 4, 2015, at 4:10 PM, gvim gvi...@gmail.com wrote: I've been pretty impressed with Scala's main framework, Play 2. There seems to be a lot of momentum behind their Typesafe Reactive Platform and, like Rails, plenty of resources to get new users up to speed. Yes, Play has overtaken

Re: [ANN, GSoC] A Common Clojure Source Metadata Model

2015-05-04 Thread richard . moehn
Am Dienstag, 5. Mai 2015 01:56:13 UTC+9 schrieb Sean Grove: I've been hoping someone would rebuild Codeq https://github.com/Datomic/codeq, now that tools.analyzer (and friends) is out and ClojureScript has made so much progress. Not only would it be useful for diving into a new codebase

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread gvim
On 04/05/2015 21:48, Robert Levy wrote: Another thing worth mentioning that I don't see already mentioned is the case for a web framework from a security perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBL59w7fXw4 Having a lot of different pieces without standard ways of putting them together can

A more flexible versio of - ?

2015-05-04 Thread Daniel
https://github.com/rplevy/swiss-arrows -- 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

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
And never has this author proven that programmers with bipolar personality are programming more LISP then other languages. It's a metaphor. The author is not actually diagnosing Lisp programmers with bipolar disorder. The metaphor offers an image of a particular kind of student who starts

Re: Embedded systems and transpiling Clojure to Nim

2015-05-04 Thread Alan Moore
All, Looks like I have some more research to do... A year or so ago I looked into going the Python/PyPy route but it's PPC support had previously stalled. I was intrigued by it's interpreter/tracing JIT structure. It seems to me that there would be a huge win, similar to the Clojure/JVM,

I wrote a functional Lisp in Clojure. Come have a look

2015-05-04 Thread eduardoejp
The language is called Lux and it's inspired by Clojure, Haskell ML https://github.com/LuxLang/lux -- 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

Re: I wrote a functional Lisp in Clojure. Come have a look

2015-05-04 Thread eduardoejp
Shen is definitely a language I'm checking out! It's sequent-calculus approach to types is really innovative and I'm a fan of the work of Dr. Mark Tarver. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: juxt/bidi ring question

2015-05-04 Thread Fluid Dynamics
On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 3:21:19 PM UTC-4, clifford wrote: Thanks @fluiddynamics your right on the money. On Monday, 4 May 2015 17:34:26 UTC+2, clifford wrote: Hi I am using juxt/bidi for route matching. with the following routes: (def routes [/ {index.html :index

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Robert Levy
I tend to agree with this Gregg. Either it's a solution in search of a need, or it's a legitimate need but no one has produced something compelling enough that a critical mass (or even a small contingent) has picked up on and said yes, this feels like a significant improvement over à la carte

Re: A more flexible versio of - ?

2015-05-04 Thread Timothy Baldridge
https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/as-%3E On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Kaiyin Zhong kindlych...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't be nice to have something like: (- thing (f1 ph arg2 arg3) (f2 arg1 ph arg3) (f3 arg1 arg2 ph)) ;; ph is a place holder for thing -- You

A more flexible versio of - ?

2015-05-04 Thread Kaiyin Zhong
Wouldn't be nice to have something like: (- thing (f1 ph arg2 arg3) (f2 arg1 ph arg3) (f3 arg1 arg2 ph)) ;; ph is a place holder for thing -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Josh Kamau
Another challenge is: There are alot of abandoned libraries and few reach 1.0. That makes selecting the libraries to compose abit difficult. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Gregg Reynolds d...@mobileink.com wrote: On May 4, 2015 7:16 AM, Eric MacAdie emaca...@gmail.com wrote: I think what

Re: [ClojureScript] [ANN] [Book] ClojureScript Unraveled

2015-05-04 Thread Marc Fawzi
such an awesome effort! thank you Andrey Alejandro! +starred +watched +favorited +retweeted :) On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Andrey Antukh n...@niwi.be wrote: Hi! We (my friend Alejandro and I) are happy to announce the first public version of a ClojureScript book that we are writing.

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
Very interesting discussion going on here. As a beginner, what I'd like to see is not something like Django or Rails, but something like Flask. Flask started off as a sort of joke -- a few Python programmers, responding to criticism of bloat in Django, said it should be possible to create a

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread Dmitri
As others have pointed out the comparison isn't really valid. Luminus intentionally aims to leverage existing libraries that are maintained independently whenever possible. I've been doing web dev with Clojure for the past 4 years and overall I do prefer the approach of using composable

Re: Clojure needs a web framework with more momentum

2015-05-04 Thread larry google groups
I read several comments about how easy it is to upgrade Rails. Either things have been improving at the speed of light or I am a complete idiot. My last upgrades from 2.x to 2.y have been nightmares, dependency hell multiplied by an unknown factor above 100... I strongly agree. I think

Re: A more flexible versio of - ?

2015-05-04 Thread Franklin M. Siler
On May 4, 2015, at 1546, Kaiyin Zhong kindlych...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't be nice to have something like: See also Swiss Arrows: https://github.com/rplevy/swiss-arrows Great article on “hard to Google” forms in Clojure: