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You can use Selmer: https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer
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yogthos / Selmer
Selmer
A fast, Django inspired template system in Clojure.
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A fast, Django inspired template system in Clojure.
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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7 sourcesI'm not telling you the reasons why you write code the way you do. I'm just telling you about my experience of using the language, which clearly differs from yours. I never found protocols to be useful as a type checking tool, and I find they're not necessary for optimizations most of the time. I spent a lot of time profiling and optimizing Selmer, this is the only protocol that turned out to be necessary for performance https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer/blob/master/src/selmer/nod...
If you find protocols are a helpful tool to structure code that's great, keep using them. Nobody is telling you not to. However, try to accept that different people use the language in different ways. Try to follow your own advice and not to be dogmatic about it.
In Why Clojure?Ah, I keep forgetting Jinja expressions can't be real Python. That makes more sense. So really this article is relevant to only full template languages or non-functional languages. edit: Looks like [Selmer](https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer) is similar to EEx in the Clojure world.
In Writing HTML with Racket and X-Expressions (2019)Clojure also has Selmer (https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer) which is a Django inspired templating language!
In Reddit 1.0 source codeWe're using Clojure at the University Health Network (http://www.uhn.ca/). Our team primarily develops mobile and web applications for clinical use. We started using it about 4 years ago, and now have a number of applications and services written in it.
We're primarily a Java shop and Clojure was appealing because it allowed us to leverage the existing ecosystem, tools, and libraries that we were already using. With Clojure, we were able to develop applications much more rapidly than with Java and we found that the applications were easier to maintain. The latter primarily comes from pervasive immutability and vast overall reduction in code.
We're currently exploring ClojureScript for the client side and already deployed a small app in production using Reagent (http://reagent-project.github.io/). It's worked extremely well for our needs t
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I was also able to release a number of libraries I developed for work as open source:
- clj-pdf PDF generation - https://github.com/yogthos/clj-pdf
- instant-pdf service - https://github.com/yogthos/instant-pdf
- Selmer templating library - https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer
- markdown-clj - https://github.com/yogthos/markdown-clj
- reagent-forms - data binding library for Reagent - https://github.com/reagent-project/reagent-forms
The Clojure alternative (simpler): https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer/
In Show HN: Nunjucks – Node templates with inheritance, asynchronous controlMaybe something like this? https://github.com/yogthos/Selmer
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