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as of now neovim works great with clojure, not sure about other lisps. vs code also.

yep, so if it's important for the application you're working on that you always run the minimum number of database queries possible, biff.graph isn't a good fit. Pathom's query pla…

You could always introduce an explicit caching context by doing something like `(binding [ cache (atom {})] ...)` whenever you start using some functions like this. If you were try…

ah got it. yeah, in that case you can write a biff -> pathom resolver shim that works for everything. Again though the main thing is just the fact that they have two completely dif…

> If it weren't for those, would Pathom be a drop-in replacement? Or is there different logic? I could've written biff.graph to work with actual Pathom resolvers. In fact it wouldn…

> From what I hear, the main draw is separating what you want from how you get it, so your calling code can just focus on what it needs. But you can use regular functions to do tha…

Thanks for mentioning datajet, I'll be taking a look at that for sure...

> It's very cool you managed to make a mini Pathom - esp in so few lines of code :)) Thanks! The possibility of doing this had been on my mind for a while... and then I finally got…

Yeah, it's a big eye-opener. I'd like to see if I can figure out an ergonomic way to do it in Python since I do a fair amount of work in that, and passing ORM objects around isn't …

hehe yes. There are plenty of other languages with dominant frameworks etc; I like being in a community of experimenters.

If everyone wants to move to biff.core that's fine with me!

AI has been working out well for me writing Clojure, both in personal projects and at work. Documentation, not so much... I write all that by hand. For Biff I've been using AI to g…

As the author of a different project also named Biff, I do have to warn you that half the comments on your HN posts will be people quoting back to the future--though I haven't deci…

In some informal benchmarks I wrote using queries + data from a web app I develop, sqlite queries were about 5x faster than postgres.

Thanks for the feedback. I've structured Yakread (and its predecessors) as a daily email newsletter because it increases user retention tremendously. It's much less work for users …

I've been working on this kind of thing over the past several years (for a while full time as an attempted entrepreneur, now on the side for the past couple years). The latest iter…

You can do that, it's just slow if there are a lot of results. Agreed you want to keep data in your main database normalized since it's easier to reason about and avoid bugs/incons…

Thanks! It's all from scratch.