It will be a only a matter of time before people realize it doesn't matter whether jQuery integrates or not. The examples/blog posts coming out already are spectacular.
On Jul 24, 1:44 pm, Peter Taoussanis <ptaoussa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just want to throw in on this real quick. I am -dumbfounded- by how > cool ClojureScript is. > > It was about 2AM my time when I first heard the announcement and I > stayed up another 3 hours after that watching Rich's talk and playing > with the samples. As I see it right now, this is a Big Deal. For lots > of reasons. And I suspect it might take some time for the whole > concept and its wide ramifications to fully digest for everyone. > > Like many (I'm guessing), my first question was: will it work with > jQuery? I'd never even heard of Google Closure. Suffice it to say it > didn't take much time looking into it to get me excited. And for it to > click just how smart this whole approach seems it might just be. > > I am, literally, deploying this to my web app right now. I've got a > Compojure route setup for a the resulting output of memoized > ClojureScript compile call. I can work on the ClojureScript directly > from my project. When something changes, I re-evaluate the memoized fn > on my dev box (or on the production server through an SSH tunnel) and > boom: I have a fully-optimized script going out to users. Add in a > content-hash of the compiled script to automatically expire the old > resource, and I have a workflow that I couldn't imagine being much > better. > > Client-side side stuff I've wanted to do with my app but couldn't even > begin to have the patience to implement- now suddenly seem trivial in > principle. Having access to the reader for transmitting native data > structures between the server and client... I don't even have the > words. > > And this is just the stuff that touches me directly and that's > obvious. I can't wait to see what people are going to do with this in > time. > > Thank you: awesome job, guys. And what an awesome surprise! > > -- > Peter -- 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
