[ANN] ryuuseijin/consistent-hashing 1.0.0

2019-03-09 Thread ryuuseijin
I would like to announce a little consistent hashing library I wrote. There already exist some implementations but I saw none that use `subseq` for amortized constant time lookups, so I wrote my own. Hope it's useful. Any feedback appreciated. https://github.com/ryuuseijin/consistent-hashing --

Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Calonico
Hi everybody, How are you? I saw some videos about Closure and I really liked the syntax and possibilities, however all tutorials I saw was very old, nothing new is coming out!! I am coming from OO world, Java, C#, JS. but I am not a professional programmer and I would like to build web apps.

Re: Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Matching Socks
Clojure is pretty simple. It works well. And nothing in it has ever been deprecated. In short, do not worry about finding a very new resource. What kind of project would you like to start out with? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group.

Re: Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Rick Mangi
Clojure is only a few years older than Elixr. I'd recommend https://www.braveclojure.com/ as a great online book/tutorial as a starting point. Enjoy! RIck On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 4:02 PM Matching Socks wrote: > Clojure is pretty simple. It works well. And nothing in it has ever been > depre

Re: Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Marcin Piczkowski
Hi, I've also started learning clojure a few months ago. I will tell you my story. The most painful at the beginning was to find the right environment setup, in particular the IDE. Many Clojure professionals advice to use Emacs but I could not get up to speed with it so I dropped it. I come from J

Re: Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Nando Breiter
As you said you wanted to build web apps in Clojure, you could check out Tony Kay's tutorials on developing them with Fulco here: https://youtu.be/nlT45ikSEOE . Fulco isn't a beginner's approach, but Tony is an excellent teacher, the tutorials are free and recent. Also, Eric Normand's course on re

Re: Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Eric Calonico
Hi Marcin, I gree 110% with you!!! I am having the same problems and I agree 100% with you!! What's more, I am on Windows...lol It's just too much work right now, not enough free tutorials and I am not a professional programmer. I'd rather learn by video tutorials that's a weakness of mine...s

Cloverage 1.1.1: updates and a call for volunteers

2019-03-09 Thread Laurens Van Houtven
Cloverage is a line coverage tool for Clojure. I just released cloverage and lein-cloverage 1.1.1. They have a few cool new features and upgrades since the last time you probably looked at it, including significantly improved performance (due to a change in a core data structure enabling improved

RE: Closure lang for newbies in 2019

2019-03-09 Thread Sean Corfield
> Such a beautiful language with so few tutorials, Elixir and other newer > languages have so much video tutorials for the newcomers...I really don't > understand. Historically, Clojure’s main attraction has been for seasoned developers so there hasn’t been much need or incentive to create tuto