structural editing, game of life, and fast repls

Clojure Gazette

Issue 1.55
October 11, 2013 ===================================

Editorial

Hello, Clojurites,

Not much to say this week. Clojure is still awesome. Enjoy the issue.

And thanks to everyone who bought my videos !

Enjoy!

Sincerely,
Eric Normand

P.S. I love hearing from readers. Just reply to this email!

Reading

Game of Life in core.async

A short implementation of the game of life in ClojureScript.

core.typed Game of Life

Logan Campbell implemented the game of life 5 times in three languages. He created a cool visualization of the 5 implementations so you can compare their sizes.

Android App Development with Clojure: An Interactive Tutorial

An in-depth tutorial explaining how to create an Android App in Clojure.

Software

Grenchman

Phil Hagelberg's project to connect to a running nREPL instead of starting a new JVM each time. It has the ability to run Leiningen tasks.

Cursive Clojure

A structural editor for Clojure build on IntelliJ. It seems to manage projects. You can get in the Early Access Program.

Smartparens

A mordern replacement for paredit in Emacs.

Ginko

While on the subject of structural editing, this editor has a neat feature for editing the structure of Lisp code.

Listening

Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant - Cognicast

Listen to this podcast to get a better understanding of how core.typed will help you code and what are its limitations.

Robert Stuttaford - Cognicast

Robert Stuttaford describes how he moved Cognician to Clojure, Clojurescript, and Datomic.

Watching

Building a multi-user Poker Application in Clojure and Datomic

Malcolm Sparks and James Adams explain how they built a Poker game with Clojure and Datomic on the backend. They discuss some interesting tradeoffs. Very interesting.

A Dinosaur's Thoughts on Programming Language Evolution