Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#1

Post by Borkdude » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 9:06 AM UTC

Together with PEZ (Peter Strömberg) I made a VSCode extension that allows you to script VSCode using Clojure (interpreted CLJS).

The repo: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride

Introductory video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oTf-1EchU

See examples directory:

https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride/tree/master/ex...

See animated gifs and news on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsjoyride?src=hashtag_click&f=li...

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#2

Post by maleghast » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 9:20 AM UTC

This is so great - the expanding universe of Clojure / ClojureScript tooling and so forth is great to see and great fun to use, whether in anger or just out of curiosity - thanks for this, I know what I will be exploring over the weekend!

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#3

Post by cospaia » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:02 AM UTC

As the co-creator here I'd like to add that Joyride is taking the very first baby steps here. We hope a lot of people want to try it and provide feedback to inform our next steps.

NB: The video has a target audience of people who know Clojure and its strengths. Especially how the REPL is used. I hope HN will see beyond the parens. =) It should make some sense anyway. Especially if you have some Emacs scripting experience, because that is where most of the inspiration to Joyride comes from.

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#4

Post by rockyj » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:03 AM UTC

Nice! I really wish we could have a CLJS -> JS compiler in pure JS (something like TypeScript) and no need for JVM or JVM libs.

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#5

Post by Borkdude » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:06 AM UTC

rockyj wrote: post #4

Nice! I really wish we could have a CLJS -> JS compiler in pure JS (something like TypeScript) and no need for JVM or JVM libs.

This exists and is called self-hosted ClojureScript. To be clear, you don't need that nor do you need a JVM to write joyscript scripts, as the scripts are interpreted by SCI, a Clojure interpreter:

https://github.com/babashka/sci

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#6

Post by ungamedplayer » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:16 AM UTC

cospaia wrote: post #3

As the co-creator here I'd like to add that Joyride is taking the very first baby steps here. We hope a lot of people want to try it and provide feedback to inform our next steps. NB: The video has a target audience of people who know Clojure and its strengths. Especially how the REPL is used. I hope HN will see beyond the parens. =) It should make some sense anyway. Especially if you have some Emacs scripting experi…

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Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#7

Post by mijoharas » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:32 AM UTC

ungamedplayer wrote: post #6

cospaia wrote: post #3

As the co-creator here I'd like to add that Joyride is taking the very first baby steps here. We hope a lot of people want to try it and provide feedback to inform our next steps. NB: The video has a target audience of people who know Clojure and its strengths. Especially how the REPL is used. I hope HN will see beyond the parens. =) It should make some sense anyway. Especially if you have some Emacs scripting experi…

Parens are love. Parens are life.

Parens are laugh.

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

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Post by leifericf » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:45 AM UTC

ungamedplayer wrote: post #6

cospaia wrote: post #3

As the co-creator here I'd like to add that Joyride is taking the very first baby steps here. We hope a lot of people want to try it and provide feedback to inform our next steps. NB: The video has a target audience of people who know Clojure and its strengths. Especially how the REPL is used. I hope HN will see beyond the parens. =) It should make some sense anyway. Especially if you have some Emacs scripting experi…

Parens are love. Parens are life.

Hugs for your code!

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#9

Post by tgv » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:50 AM UTC

That looks promising, but I have a feeling that vscode doesn't offer as much options to hook into the editor as emacs does. E.g., one of the first emacs scripts I wrote added the next number to the current line. It contains something like

    (insert (number-to-string (setq counter (+ 1 counter))))

Is that kind of thing possible too?

Re: Show HN: Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure

#10

Post by kitd » Fri, Apr 29, 2022, 10:53 AM UTC

ungamedplayer wrote: post #6

cospaia wrote: post #3

As the co-creator here I'd like to add that Joyride is taking the very first baby steps here. We hope a lot of people want to try it and provide feedback to inform our next steps. NB: The video has a target audience of people who know Clojure and its strengths. Especially how the REPL is used. I hope HN will see beyond the parens. =) It should make some sense anyway. Especially if you have some Emacs scripting experi…

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