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Clojure IDEs - The Grand Tour (bestinclass.dk)
64 points by rayvega on June 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments



As usual, all roads seem to lead back to emacs.


What gives you this impression? The author uses Emacs, but Emacs is by no means the choice of most programmers.


According to a recent clojure survey "Emacs ran away with it, actually moreso than I expected, in use by 70% all respondents." http://muckandbrass.com/web/display/~cemerick/2010/06/07/Res...


What I got from that article:

"I continue to maintain that broad acceptance and usage of Clojure will require that there be top-notch development environments for it that mere mortals can use and not be intimidated by...and IMO, while emacs is hugely capable, I think it falls down badly on a number of counts related to usability, community/ecosystem, and interoperability."

But I was specifically speaking about the grandparent's post in reaction to this submission. What could be taken from this article to suggest that "all roads lead back to Emacs"?

It strikes me as a very smug pro-Emacs comment that has nothing to do with the article besides the fact that it mentions Emacs at all.


yes. emacs is pretty good while all the other alternatives are so half-baked. this goes for erlang as well. what remains to be seen is if somebody eventually decides to make a great editor for one (or more) of these languages without all the idiosyncrasies of emacs.


Comments on this when it was posted previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1196550


Thanks for that. It was a good quick intro to the choices of IDE.


Wow, this is like the greatest clojure blog I've ever seen.


You might say it's the... "best in class"...

Sorry, I'll go back to reddit.




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