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I have written a couple of 80kloc Common Lisp apps. Not a problem. But we all are used to what we are used to, and anything different offends.

Working eight tickets in thirty minutes, while yapping away about Flutter/MX, a sophisticated state manager wrapping Flutter, thanks to a Clojure implementation that compiles to Da…

I definitely identify with addressed concerns over the hassles of my go-to debug approach, viz. print statements. I have a rather intense state engine that, when things go awry, ca…

FYI, they recently resumed activity on Hoplon. Good to see!

(a) Is six months a long time? (b) And then they delivered successfully. (c) Not seeing a problem. I know, I have been beating on CLJD like I was its Daddy wrapping it in a reactiv…

"a full rewrite will be absolutely necessary" cough Well, this article _is_ about a delightful Lispy alternative to Dart that compiles to Dart, yielding a superior language with Ge…

As a Dart/Flutter outsider myself, I am finding all this "Dart no, Flutter yes" traffic intriguing. I am also a lisper, so no need to sell me on the difficulties of Dart, even if i…

I agree "UI = f(state)" rocks. That was the one thing React got right. But they never worked out state management, other than to kick off the Flux monstrosity that Redux ran with, …

By popular request, a video[0] of my workflow using ClojureDart and Matrix to live code Flutter. The last few minutes show me probing a new bug! I experiment, and find a partial wo…

Voila! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiTfIc7nDo Please let me know what else you might like to see.

I think the original MobX[0], not MobX State Tree, and perhaps binding.Scala[1], did well on state management, but not many libraries do. I see a lot of solutions in the Flutter ec…

It's my fault. And other active users. Tensegritics polled us on what we wanted first -- Tensegritics is neither Oracle nor Google -- and we all had a REPL in last place. The one c…

This reminds me so much of the ClojureScript "win". I love that JS is rounding into shape as a serious language, but the version turmoil! CLJS was "done" when it came out, so the C…

Wow! Coconut alone looks impressive. Is there a state management solution in there? I looked at the Todo app and it looked like manual change propagation.

Answering another question about Flutter variability I remembered that that variability requires a bit of custom wrapping per widget for Matrix goodness. ClojureDart is fine, but m…

Mark! How are you! Yes, my heart belongs to Common Lisp, but Clojure has macros and the parens are in the right place..."well enough" says it all. I hang mostly on the Clojurians S…

Carp! A user just turned me onto that, I am looking at porting Matrix to Carp. Matrix started on Common Lisp in the last century. https://github.com/kennytilton/cells

The huge thing that encouraged me to port my Matrix library to CLJD was that I saw the Flutter community did not have a consensus reactive solution. The tersest write-up I have on …

I think everybody but MobX and my Matrix hack lives off setState, so to that extent yes. But React embraces the HTML API in the form of JSX. Flutter designers were in an OO world a…

I think I know what you mean. I would not say it is incoherent, but it does not have the extreme uniformity of attributes> children . I actually bring some of that back in my Flutt…

I believe Tensegritics already has an app up on the app store based on early ClojureDart. I run screaming before apps have to be deployed, so please check with them on that. They h…

The tl;dr is, on the Mac, (1) start their Simulator app; (2) start a build with watch in the app root directory; and (3) edit code as usual (IntelliJ/Cursive). The app rebuilds/rel…

Thx! Full marks to the folks at Tensegritics for ClojureDart. As for migration, Mr. Hickey made a small language, and that made CLJS and CLJD possible. Nice! Now they just have to …

I think you have made the case for ClojureDart. Clojure does not do the Typescript strong typing thing, but it meets the "Not Dart" requirement pretty well. And my specific contrib…