I wanted to write an example server in clojure to show some folks at the office what a full from the ground up application might look like in clojure. I wanted a non-trivial example, but not one so complex that a new clojure user wouldn't understand it. I had ported some decent algorithms we used over to clojure and was impressed at the expressiveness (moving something that took 500+ lines to express in a more popular language down to 71 sloc). However, that effort was not an application, just a set of functions running against test data.
I ended up writing a chat server in clojure, thats weighs in at about 189 lines of code (not counting comments and blank lines). I am fairly new to clojure so I was hoping people could take a look at it and give constructive comments about what I did right and what I did wrong. The server implements users, chat rooms, private messaging and so forth. It also uses the concurrency built in so I could attempt to show off the concurrent nature of clojure to my colleagues. Some things to note: * I am new to clojure. I have about 4 weeks of experience now, about half of it spent reading up on clojure so I could write this thing. I am sure the code will show that off :( * I realize there is a specification for IRC. I wanted something simpler. * This server is just an example, and it is built around people using telnet to connect to it. It is not robust. Simple things like a client not reading its input will eventually hang a user thread. * Lots of IO, so unfortunately, quite a bit of side effects. I'll probably add features over time. But please, look at it and give me feedback so I can get better at clojure. Here's the link http://github.com/cmcclellen/crm.chat-server/tree/master --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
