>> This is also something that wouldn't be possible with Mount as this library seems to promote global state.
As a recent switcher from Component to Mount, and without trying to change the thread's topic into a this vs. that -- I'll simply say that I don't believe any of these tools promote global state, it is people who code global state, and that can be with any of these tools... or likewise avoided with any of these tools. Some tools (i.e. Component) probably make it more difficult to have global state, but I think it is heavy handed. For projects with a lot of components, I would spend a lot of time backtracking components all feeding into each other to figure out where some var was when working in REPL. I'd also repeatedly deal with errors when adding new components as I didn't set up the dependencies correctly at first... just several interlocking pieces that all need to be coordinated, and I sometimes forget one (or two). Mount probably makes it a little easier to have global state, but that is up to the developer - I have no more global state than I had before the switch. I find it easier to work in REPL and get access to a var, or conn, etc. when I need to eval something, and I think all these components are primarily there to make the REPL workflow better. Also, I'm out of the business of managing my dependencies, which my challenges might just root from an absent-mindedness that I possess. Once it is in production, the component stuff matters very little anyhow. All to say that these tools, assuming they provide the feature needs that have been outlined well in this thread, should not make anything 'not possible' and can have as much or as little global state as the developer chooses to code in. I cringe a bit when I repeatedly see that Mount promotes global state, I think that is a falsehood. -Brian -- 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.
