I would be willing to pay /really/ good money for an editor that has a few
features:

* paredit or better
* proper syntax highlighting of clojure (emacs rocks at this, ST2 sucks at
it)
* ST2-quality fuzzy matching at every completionable prompt (emacs's
ido-mode is alright but ST2's is way better)
* keyboard shortcuts that dont kill my wrists/pinkies/fingers
* jump-to-symbol-definition
* jump-to-file
* tabs (a la macvim)
* splits (a la emacs)
* magit or better (might be willing to ignore this omission though)
* not-super-bloated UI
* themeable (dont care if it has a good theme, i can make one if need be, i
just need it to be themeable)
* something like nrepl.el

(where ST2 means Sublime Text 2)

That's *all* I care about, nothing else matters to me. But no editor can
get *all* these things right.

-Steven


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Colin Fleming
<colin.mailingl...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was planning to wait a little longer before going public, but since it's
> pretty relevant to the other IntelliJ thread going on at the moment I
> thought I'd jump in. For the last couple of months of happy unemployment
> I've been working on a fork of La Clojure which is now about 70% migrated
> to Clojure and significantly improved. It's a lot of work to develop a tool
> like this, and one of the options I'm considering is starting a company to
> develop it as a commercial product - JetBrains have never maintained
> development of La Clojure very actively. I've been doing a little market
> research but there's really not much data around about whether there are
> enough people working with Clojure to sustain a product like that, and also
> the community is currently very focused on open source.
>
> 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. I'd appreciate it if we could stay
> away from the politics of open source vs proprietary - several people have
> told me privately that they'd rather use OSS and that's fine, proprietary
> isn't for everyone. What I'd like to know is if the idea is appealing to
> many people here?
>
> In case it's a concern for anyone, I've discussed this with JetBrains.
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
>
> Cheers,
> Colin
>
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