Re:Clojure 1.5.0 RC 1 released
by airlocksoftware on Saturday December 22, 2012 @07:11PM
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Scala was originally released in 2003, and Clojure wasn't released until 2007. There's your difference, I think. I still see Clojure as having a strong chance of becoming a major language. The language itself is relatively stable now, and the I've noticed the community shift towards making it easier for newcomers to get started and improving documentation.
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Interesting point about the relative release dates - I had no idea there's 4 years between Clojure and Scala.
Making Clojure easier for newcomers would be a boon - I've battled with setup and configuration each time I've tried to use Clojure. Having a simple but powerful REPL environment like IPython would be fantastic.
Fastest way to start with Clojure (besides the online REPL at http://tryclj.com) is to get yourself leiningen (the widely used build tool for clojure projects under: http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) and a plugin/mode for your editor of choice, do "lein new <your project name>" and start a REPL via "lein repl" to get working.
Re:Clojure 1.5.0 RC 1 released
by kybernetyk on Sunday December 23, 2012 @05:18AM
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> Having a simple but powerful REPL environment like IPython would be fantastic.
Download and install leiningen (http://leiningen.org) and then you can start up a repl with 'lein repl'.
I wrote a little web app using clojure and when it came to deployment I was really positively surprised:
1) 'lein ring uberwar'
2) copy resulting war file into your tomcat webapps directory
3) you're done
There's also a heroku plugin if you don't like hosting yourself.
Without leiningen clojure is just unusable though. You have to mess with classpathes and wrapping java command line calls in boilerplate.