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“Swift has turned into a gigantic, super complicated bag of special cases, special syntax, special stuff…” — Chris Lattner, 2024 https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killin…

For those who are interested, here is the official statement from the ClojureScript team regarding Google Closure Library going into “maintenance mode” and its impact on ClojureScr…

This is also well known in the Clojure community as Hammock-Driven Development [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/f84n5oFoZBc

They changed the default garbage collector to G1 last year.[1] [1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/commit/edf1c...

> The bigger issue though is wasting time wrapping Java libraries and most comments I see about Clojure interop talk as if there is no cost to it. You are not forced to "waste time…

Clojure developers tend to choose the official Clojure CLI tools [1] for new projects these days. [1] https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli

To be fair, this is not unique to Clojure. You need to deal with stack traces no matter what as long as you're using any programming language that targets the JVM (even statically …

Thanks to the dynamic nature of Clojure programs, experienced Clojure developers use the REPL-driven development workflow as demonstrated in this video [1]. [1] https://youtu.be/gI…

I cannot answer your question. Since you love Python, I guess you don't have any problem with dynamic type-checking. You also mentioned Scheme, I take that as you don't mind parent…

According to the latest status update from a member of the Clojure core team [1], we may see improvements in startup time with the next version of Clojure (1.11). [1] https://insid…

I think what @iLemming meant is that she/he doesn’t understand the appeal of having a fancy REPL _UI_ (mostly virtual terminal emulator-based readline implementations) and working …

Firefox just gained the ability to use Mac’s hardware media keys to control media playback in the latest beta/developer edition (71 right now): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bu…

As a regular user and promoter of REPL.it, I like it very much and therefore submitted two PR’s [1][2] after seeing a blog post about how to contribute to it [3]. Unfortunately, th…

To anyone who's interested in this topic, I strongly recommend this talk from Rich Hickey about "giving something to somebody that they can use and making a commitment ": Spec-ulat…

If you're using Firefox, this extension might be a search engine-agnostic solution for you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/languageswitc...

Based on your description, the Lisp that you're looking for should: - be the most modern one - have a robust ecosystem - package management - tooling - can be used for building pro…

It seems to me what you’re struggling with is functional programming (the paradigm) instead of Clojure (the language or grammar) itself. This is pretty common for people who are us…

I was passively introduced to Clojure when I joined my current team at my current company a few years ago. After spending 5 years in a humongous, horribly-maintained Java code base…

Yes, copy/paste between Firefox (on Wayland) and other apps was broken but was fixed in firefox-63.0.1-5.fc29.[1][2] [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1585393 [2] htt…

Fedora 29 has a “firefox-wayland” package that runs the latest stable release of Firefox (63 as of now) on Wayland (instead of XWayland). I’ve been using it for a long while and it…

They post newsletters[1] about WebRender on a regular basis. [1] https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/webrender-newsle...

As the leader in online affiliate marketing, we’ve just launched our analytics and insights platform that is written in Clojure [0]. If you like Clojure, come work with us [1]. [0]…

If it helps, the core team uses Atlassian JIRA [0] for issue tracking and Atlassian Confluence [1] for design and planning discussions. [0] https://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/CLJ …