Re: Newbie's confusion

2014-12-05 Thread Sven Richter
Hi, Developing with cursive for almost half a year now, I still do use Lighttable (http://lighttable.com/) a lot. I find it especially useful for learning clojure as it delivers the most instant feedback I can think of by giving back results directly in the editor. So go and give it a shot, as

Re: Newbie's confusion

2014-12-05 Thread Marcus Magnusson
The REPL takes some effort if you're not used to it, but stick with it and you shall be greatly rewarded! Since it's such an interactive workflow, I feel that it helps to view someone else use it. There's a great intro to Clojure video by Chas Emerick where he develops a small web application,

Re: Newbie's confusion

2014-12-05 Thread Jony Hudson
I made a couple of videos that might have some useful information in them. The first one covers setting up Cursive and Intellij, which it sounds like you've already done: https://vimeo.com/103808402 The second looks a little at what sort of workflow you might use. It doesn't go very far, but i

Re: Newbie's confusion

2014-12-05 Thread Gary Verhaegen
There is a big shift in mindset when switching to REPL-based development. Essentially, with the Java workflow you describe, you are thinking of launching and testing your whole application as a single unit. What the REPL will let you do, which might not be immediately obvious depending on your bac

Re: Newbie's confusion

2014-12-05 Thread Di Xu
Maybe you just too used to programming in language that don't equipped with REPL. Typical development process I have is: * analysis the problem, and design a few fn to solve it. Most of fn should be functional, so you can easily test them. * start a REPL, load that namespace, and test fns individ