On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: > I'm curious to hear people's thoughts. I don't have a ton of > experience with Clojure and I also might be misled regarding > the aims of the nREPL project. What's bothering people with > Swank's protocol anyway?
I have zero experience with Emacs (at least for Clojure - I last used Emacs in the 80's and it looked much the same when I looked at it briefly last year). I have no familiarity with Slime/Swank either. To me, all that stuff (Emacs / Slime / Swank) seems to be tied together and harks back to older Lisps - no offense intended to folks who live and die in Emacs: it just doesn't feel like a good Java IDE to me. I use Eclipse for all my development because I work entirely in a Java environment (even the web scripting language I use these days, CFML, compiles down to JVM bytecode and runs alongside all my other JVM languages). My current Clojure IDE of choice is therefore CCW + Eclipse. CCW uses nREPL. As far as I understand it, none of CCW, Enclojure or LaClojure use Slime/Swank? That means that all of those would need to implement the rich protocol you mention in order to support Slime/Swank... Given that nREPL is now a Clojure Contrib project - https://github.com/clojure/tools.nrepl - I would imagine it would be more likely to see IDE tools embracing that? I guess I would need to be persuaded that either a) Slime/Swank is so unassailably good that all IDEs should implement it or b) there are inherent problems with nREPL and no IDEs should use it? -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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 Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. 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
