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by elwell 750 days ago
> core.async was actually the "killer app"

For ClojureScript, it was React. Immutable state / functional programming fits so nicely, and hiccup syntax (JSX as simple vectors) is the perfect declarative (yet transformable) DOM structure.
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yayitswei 750 days ago
Want to put in a plug for Electric Clojure. More composable than React (mix server and client code in the same function!) and more performant. I've had a lot of fun using it over the past year, and it's IMHO the most transformative tech I've seen in web dev.

Wrt the original article, effect systems like missionary (which electric is based on) can be used to complement or replace queues, often resulting in simpler code.

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tombert 750 days ago
Oh absolutely, no argument here at all.

I don't do a lot of frontend, but for anything that does involve frontend I kind of refuse to use anything but re-frame. It took a bit of dogma-acceptance, but once I did I really liked it for all the reasons you listed, and in particular that there's no special JSX crap, and instead just using vanilla vectors and symbols. This has the interesting advantage where you can generate your HTML logic without actually having to import the re-frame/re-agent logic, which can be useful if you want to decouple logic from rendering.

I haven't done any benchmarks, but I haven't noticed re-frame being slower than vanilla React, it seems to be a comparable speed, but as stated I don't do much frontend.

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