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ClojureScript REPL into embedded JavaScriptCore

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ClojureScript REPL into embedded JavaScriptCore

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Apr 20	2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC	2015-04-27 00:00:00 UTC	2	1	1
Apr 27	2015-04-27 00:00:00 UTC	2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 4	2015-05-04 00:00:00 UTC	2015-05-11 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 11	2015-05-11 00:00:00 UTC	2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 18	2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC	2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 25	2015-05-25 00:00:00 UTC	2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 1	2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 8	2015-06-08 00:00:00 UTC	2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 15	2015-06-15 00:00:00 UTC	2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 22	2015-06-22 00:00:00 UTC	2015-06-29 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 29	2015-06-29 00:00:00 UTC	2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 6	2015-07-06 00:00:00 UTC	2015-07-13 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 13	2015-07-13 00:00:00 UTC	2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jul 20	2015-07-20 00:00:00 UTC	2015-07-27 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 27	2015-07-27 00:00:00 UTC	2015-08-03 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 3	2015-08-03 00:00:00 UTC	2015-08-10 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 10	2015-08-10 00:00:00 UTC	2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 17	2015-08-17 00:00:00 UTC	2015-08-24 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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grayrest·Aug 23, 2015

This is an extension of Ambly [0], which is basically the same thing but for iOS. I believe Ambly was developed because Clojurescript's startup time makes it more practical than clojure on a mobile device. David Nolen has posted benchmarks showing jsc runs clojurescript faster than v8 but I don't believe that was the primary motivation here. [0] https://github.com/omcljs/ambly

In Planck is a ClojureScript REPL and script execution environment

mfikes·Jul 16, 2015

From a tutorial / example perspective, there's this: https://github.com/omcljs/ambly/wiki/ClojureScript-React-Nat... The general state of things is covered here: http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-07-06-clojurescript-wit...

In Fast JavaScriptCore Desktop ClojureScript REPL

tilt·Apr 25, 2015Submission

Driving React Native with ClojureScript /Om

3 points · Open discussion

robinricard·Apr 25, 2015

This is a nice, complete and well-documented review of why Clojure is not made for Android. I disagree with the conclusion though: yeah, the classic JVM-clojure seems doomed on Android. Why ? It's not made for that, it's made for servers, it's not even used for desktop GUI programming that much. Even if we beat the startup time, it's not likely that we'll get nice UI-bindings for Android before a long time (I like the Java-interop but writing serious Android apps with the interop alone seems awful to me) and yes, there are some libraries abstracting this a little bit such as neko [1] but it's still too close to the Java-development paradigms (it's not as clojure-ish as I wish, but that's my opinon!). So, the conclusion: no we don't need a swift for Android, and clojure is not swift anyway. iOS already has clojure support, it's not really

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stable but it has decent startup times and a nice API. It's not the JVM-clojure, it's clojurescript. The UI is managed by React Native and om. It works and you get a nice REPL running too. [2] No it's not finished and has lots of bugs and it's not even publishable on the AppStore for now but it's just a matter of weeks here before addressing those problems (you can follow the work of David Nolen & Mark Fikes on this particularly, they often communicate on what they're doing but there are other awesome people working on this too!) So for Android ? ReactNative is coming too [3]. When it's there, the community will try the same thing as what they did on iOS, and it's likely to succeed too. The community behind cljs is growing and it's becoming the main clojure implementation for ui-related stuff. You can thank React and om for that but I think that core.async has a lot to do with it too. Anyway, I don't want to stop believing in Clojure for mobile development. [1]: https://github.com/clojure-android/neko [2]: https://github.com/omcljs/ambly/wiki/Driving-React-Native-wi... [3]: https://facebook.github.io/react/blog/#when-is-react-native-...

In The state of Clojure on Android