Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?

Re:Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? by epiccoleman on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:56PM (#38548037)

Almost ten years ago, I gave a lightning talk about Overtone (Clojure mappings for SuperCollider). I used "vim-fireplace" to connect to cider-nrepl and had a pretty good experience being able to quickly eval sexps in Vim.

I'm sure this is wildly outdated by now - I'd be shocked if there wasn't something halfway decent in the NeoVim ecosystem.

I will say, though, that during a brief flirtation with Spacemacs, I absolutely loved the Clojure integration - emacs just feels like it's more "at home" with lisps. Some of the most satisfying programming experiences I've had, honestly.

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Re:Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? by cutler on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @06:40PM (#38551005)

As a Vim user I agree. Spacemacs is an excellent Clojure dev environment.

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Re:Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? by epiccoleman on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:42PM (#38560857)

The spacemacs / emacs feature I miss constantly in Vim / VsCode is "slurp/barf" - which is amazing useful in plenty of contexts that aren't s-exps.

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Re:Why is Jepsen written in Clojure? by fiddlerwoaroof on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:00PM (#38574322)

Yeah, it’s annoying that paredit is “complected” with Clojure and lisp modes in other editors. This is one of the major things keeping me in emacs: it’s relatively trivial to mash up pre-existing emacs functionality ad hoc; other editors tend to precombine features in arbitrary ways.

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