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by STRML 4529 days ago
Looks like a great project.

Is it just me, or does it seem like cljs is making a big stir these last few weeks? After a few years with NodeJS, I've always wanted to do some more purely functional programming; I've seen a lot of buzz about Clojure/cljs and have started considering it for my next project.
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nickik 4529 days ago
ClojureScript specially has taken off. This project, then you have the extreamly cool (but a bit hard to understand) pedestal (https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal), the Om (https://github.com/swannodette/om) library has made a splash even in the JS community.

A lot of exitment around core.asnyc (witch allows CSP like Go) on the web.

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_xczx 4529 days ago
I'm really looking forward to pedestal. From what I understand the team is vacationing, but that there are plans to integrate core.async. I do wish that its development were a bit more public, though.
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nickik 4529 days ago
I would probebly not bother with following the devlopment to closly, I will wait until they feel like it is realy for early testing.

Look at this talk, http://www.infoq.com/presentations/pedestal-clojure, I think it gives the most up to date ideas about pedastal and the next version.

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babby 4529 days ago
LightTable is written in clojurescript and it's a first-class language for the IDE (The core devs prefering it I guess).

Id like to use LightTable but I'm more of a CoffeeScript guy and CS isn't built in yet. Apparently to add support you pretty much need to know ClojureScript to create a plugin, or something around that. I'll gladly write the CoffeeScript syntaxer, highlighter and a theme, as I run my own flavors in Sublime. Just need the integration to be there.

Someone help! (Please go learn ClojureScript and PR to LightTable immediately OP)

https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/issues/458 :)

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jamii 4529 days ago
Light Table already has coffee-script syntax highlighting etc from CodeMirror. What's missing is support for evaluation and auto-completion.

Some people have written plugins in pure js (eg https://github.com/joshuafcole/).

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