> > 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. >
One skill can help bootstrapping the other :) clojure.core/trampoline style. Thanks for sharing your experience, I feel greatly identified with it. On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 a topic in the > Google Groups "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/clojure/Uhe5Wjmkb5s/unsubscribe?hl=en. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- 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.
