So a few months after using emacs, I gotta say I love it. First I absolutely hated it with a passion, and it really highlights my (fast but) poor typing skills :). Like Clojure I guess it requires a very different mindset. My constant frustration now is deciding whether to spend the time improving my emacs skills (at the level of mainly implementing keybindings) or improving my lein and Clojure skills.
Nice problem to have though coming from the Enterprise Java world where the biggest problem was remembering to stop and think rather than just cntrl-spacing the application. I jest of course. The biggest 'ah - got it' for me was when I realised IDEs are great for navigating huge object models which are relatively narrow but deep (i.e. lots of nested relationships). This requires a special set of navigation skills (cntrl-click to go to declaration, autocompletion etc). Clojure (and I guess FP) code tends to be a much wider and shallower surface (i.e. lots of sibling functions with a few well defined data structures). The other huge win is the REPL. Trying things out, viewing the doc or source of functions etc. is just such a liberating experience. Loving it. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
