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68points
41comments
#369of 1,739 in 2013
Top 22%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.21.

Design: 1 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean interface and easy to use

    From 2 comments
    • Nice work! The interface looks clean and, so far, everything is pretty easy to use. A small note, I was able to get a default android target to Run but Build crashed. It looks…
      emeraldd on HN
    • Wow, this looks brilliant! I think this is what will finally persuade me to play with Clojure more. Public domain license as well... Nice work.
      Intermernet on HN
  • Impressive capabilities for an early release

    From 1 comment
    • Nicely done - very impressive set of capabilities for an early release. Definitely interested in trying and learning more about Clojure with it.
      tyler-codenvy on HN
  • Desktop Swing libraries rather than HTML wrapper

    From 1 comment
    • Great to know, plus points for using desktop libraries and not some HTML 5 wrapper thingie.
      pjmlp on HN

Objections

  • Vim and Emacs users see little need for it

    From 2 comments
    • This is the second IDE announcement on the front page in 2 days (the other one being PyCharm). So far I have resisted the temptation to use an IDE. Whenever I thought I needed a…
      geertj on HN
    • Frankly, yes. The code completion, inline documentation, refactoring, etc, in a modern IDE (especially IntelliJ products) is will beyond whats acheiveable in Vim. And there's…
      TylerE on HN
  • Documentation is missing

    From 1 comment
    • This just works, great but where is the documentation? I also checked the github page, nothing there too
      systems on HN

Requests

  • Autocompletion for imported namespaces

    From 1 comment
    • Very very good. However when I have a project with imported namespace (ns project.core (:require [seesaw.core :as s])) then when I write s/ and hit ctrl+space, the autocompletion…
      em7 on HN
  • Fix Android build missing android.jar

    From 1 comment
    • Nice work! The interface looks clean and, so far, everything is pretty easy to use. A small note, I was able to get a default android target to Run but Build crashed. It looks…
      emeraldd on HN

Questions

  • Key differences from LightTable

    From 1 comment
    • Quick question as a guy learning Clojure currently: I'm using LightTable right now, and thoroughly enjoying the Clojure experience. Can you explain what you see are the key…
      JPKab on HN
  • What UI toolkit is used

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • LightTable

    From 1 comment
    • Quick question as a guy learning Clojure currently: I'm using LightTable right now, and thoroughly enjoying the Clojure experience. Can you explain what you see are the key…
      JPKab on HN
  • Emacs

    From 1 comment
  • Vim with vim-fireplace

    From 1 comment
    • I'm a huge fan of vim-fireplace[1] (and almost every other tpope vim plugin). vim-fireplace provides essentially all of the functionality listed above through a lein nREPL…
      wonginator1221 on HN
  • Counterclockwise (Eclipse)

    From 1 comment
    • I can't speak to a feature to feature comparison, but heres some key features you get with counterclockwise. Automatching parens (parenedit?), rainbow parens if you want, a built…
      smrtinsert on HN
  • IntelliJ IDEA

    From 1 comment
    • Frankly, yes. The code completion, inline documentation, refactoring, etc, in a modern IDE (especially IntelliJ products) is will beyond whats acheiveable in Vim. And there's…
      TylerE on HN

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