Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by rfrey on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:13AM (#23167063)

I am full to my neckline with Clojure kool-aid: I love the language and programming experience. But the "getting started" your parent is referring to, IMO, is getting the tooling set up, getting the repls connected, figuring out what a full-stack app looks like with its 2 distinct repls and toolchains and lein config mashups, hooking up an editor... and then having it break the next day. After 5 years of Clojure I still get frustrated if I'm away for more than a month.

It's like you were getting blisters from stringing your guitar. You buy a guitar, get home, and it takes three days to open the case. Then another week to figure out which strings go where. God help you when you realize you have to tune the thing.

Two, five, seven days pass and you haven't played a note. I don't think that's what Hickey meant.

That said, it's worth it.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by tartoran on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:59AM (#23167504)

Spot on with your amusing guitar analogy. Getting to play notes seems like an afterthought, but when it does it plays for you as if it reads your mind to do so. The problem is the setup and that's the part that I dislike these days, the patience to to configure the tools is not there, a lot of the tools are like black boxes, something goes wrong and it isn't visible or or it is too complex to enjoy the process.

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