On Apr 16, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Mikera <mike.r.anderson...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 17 April 2014 03:57:56 UTC+8, Mike Haney wrote: >> The conventional wisdom seems to be that you will end up learning emacs >> eventually if you spend any amount of time doing clojure or lisp, so you >> might as well learn it from the start. That is definitely the approach >> taken in the braveclojure book, and he may be right, but I have no regrets >> starting with lighttable. > > As a counter-example to the "conventional wisdom", I have never really used > Emacs and I've being doing Clojure successfully for around 4 years now. I'm > sure Emacs is great for those who have taken the time to master it, but it > certainly isn't necessary to be productive in Clojure. > > I personally use Counterclockwise - this is mainly because I also do a lot of > Java work in Eclipse and it makes the polyglot integration much easier if you > aren't switching tools all the time. > > I'm also quite excited about the potential of things like Session or > Gorilla-REPL for exploratory / data science work. I like the way that the > Clojure ecosystem is developing a lot of innovative, plug-able components and > tools that enable different development styles. A different kind of counter-example: I've used emacs a fair bit in my decades of Lisping and now years of Clojuring, but I now too use Counterclockwise. IMHO emacs has tremendous and beautiful power but unnecessarily awful usability characteristics. I hope that some day someone will develop a Clojure environment with the former but without the later, possibly driven by emacs under the hood. -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/d/optout.
