Hi Brad, I've updated my doc with your questions. Here is how I responded
to your particular queries. Note the answer may not be correct as I'm a
clojure newbie myself.
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Leiningen is a build tool like maven for java, or rake (i think) for
ruby. You can use it to publish your jar into maven repositories for
example.
Slime is a protocol that lets you communicate from emacs to a
listening server. In clojure, we start a swank server, which is the
clojure REPL process, and connect to it from emacs, speaking 'slime'.
The net effect is that we can have a REPL inside our emacs editor.
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On Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:58:23 PM UTC-7, brad bowman wrote:
>
> On Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:58:19 PM UTC+10, John Gabriele wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 18, 10:23 pm, Chris Zheng <zcaud...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > {snip}
>> > So basically, if a 'lead clojure evangelist' can either 'officially' or
>> > 'unofficially' recommend ONE emacs setup, along with a bunch of
>> > videos/tutorials that demonstrate how to code and how fast it is to
>> design
>> > and code using the repl. Then that be enough to get people at least
>> > interested.
>>
>> People are very opinionated about their editor/IDE. I think the Getting
>> +Started docs are good --- they separate:
>>
>> * if you want just Emacs plus the repl, here you go (clojure-mode
>> readme)
>> * if you want Emacs + inferior-lisp, do this (this doc needs work)
>> * if you want Emacs + swank/slime, do this (swank-clojure readme)
>>
>> and of course also info on Eclipse, Clooj, and other editors/ide's as
>> well.
>>
>
> I'm right at the start of this process, completely unfamiliar with Clojure,
> Leiningen, Emacs, Java and all of the projects with cute names.
> I don't even know what I want.
>
> I've cut and pasted various git-clone and lein commands, but have no idea
> about the bigger picture. I'm happy to dawdle along on my own, but if my
> current (and hopefully temporary) ignorance can provide feedback on a
> start-up guide then let me know.
>
> At present I'm often wondering "what is this thing? why do I want it?".
> Slime for example. I don't especially want answers here, but something
> like
> a glossary for the clojure ecosystem would be handy (not that I've looked
> hard).
>
> Another document that might useful is a platform Rosetta stone
> matching clojure tools and libraries to those that fill a similar role in
> other
> languages (Java and Ruby for starters). This is more of a "nice to have".
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
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