On Jul 27, 2013, at 7:54 AM, Colin Fleming wrote: > One problem is that the IDE space is already fairly fractured - there's Emacs > and CCW, Clooj, Sublime Text and the promise of Light Table at some point, > and of course the current public version of La Clojure. But there's still not > a great option for something that's powerful but easy to use - CCW is > probably the closest thing to this right now. However I think it's telling > that a large fraction of people in the State of Clojure 2012 survey still > identified development tools as a major pain point. > > I think that the IntelliJ platform is a fantastic base to build something > like this on. Clojure as a language makes it pretty challenging to develop a > lot of the great functionality that JetBrains are famous for, but I think > there's scope to do a lot of great things. Certainly for mixed Clojure/Java > projects it would be difficult to beat, but even for Clojure only projects I > can imagine a lot of fantastic functionality built on their infrastructure. > My plan would be to release a standalone IDE and a plugin for people using > IntelliJ Ultimate for web dev, Ruby/Python or whatever. Since it's mostly > Clojure now (and I'm migrating what's left as I get to it) there's a real > possibility of a Clojure plugin/extension API. I envision charging > PyCharm/RubyMine type prices, say $200 for company licenses or $100 for > individual developers. > > So, I'd love to hear what people think.
One data point: I'd be very happy to pay an amount in this ballpark for a Clojure IDE that combined power and usability better than the current options. One important consideration for me, however, would be the cost and ease of making it available to my students as well, both in our labs and on their personal machines (which they often use to do their work). Some products make this a pain by requiring us to count machines or deal with license servers, or the costs add up too fast. I think there are good ways to deal with this (e.g. free or time-limited student licenses), and while I don't have strong opinions about the details it'd be important that it could be done for reasonable expense and with minimal hassle. -Lee -- -- 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.
