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2023-11-21

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Lyn Headley12:11:42

One of the nice things about biff and other clojure web frameworks is structural editing of hiccup. When i think of other languages "integration" with html, and the experience of editing html documents as strings or "templates" - I smile.

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Martynas Maciulevičius13:11:16

I don't see any problems: 

public Object[] displayMyString(badge: Object[], myString: Object[]) {
        return new Object[]{[
                "div", 
                Map.of(
                    "style", Map.of("background-color", "red")
                ),
                new Object[] {
                    "div",
                    badge, 
                    new Object[]{
                        "p",
                        myString
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }
On a similar note: We also have integrations like honeysql where you have the select statement as a data structure instead of string manipulation or a thousand of factory functions.

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Lyn Headley15:11:08

I think in clojure it is much easier to take the bottom "p" and make it wrap around the top "div", using structural editing

Martynas Maciulevičius15:11:16

I expected a rage of Java developers because "it's not OOP and 'look how many maps you created'" 😂

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chromalchemy19:11:04

I agree. Structural editing is a killed app, often taken for granted. Applyi g it to html nesting helps so much!