i know that cursive is not an open source, but my quest is to write a simple plugin for intellij in clojure.

i am here for clues

@akond It’s (mostly) possible, but it’s very annoying and in general in my opinion not worth it.

They don’t mix very well.

Is this for something you would want to release, or for a hobby project?

@cfleming a hobby.

i was afraid of that. my second choice is kotlin then.

I highly recommend Kotlin.

It’s a nice language, and the whole path to using it for IntelliJ plugins is (unsurprisingly) very smooth.

Building a plugin using Clojure is annoying - you really want to use Gradle since there’s a lot of tooling there, but the Clojure Gradle story is still experimental. I used a plugin I hacked together myself, that later became Clojurephant but I don’t know what the status of that is.

It’s also tricky to get your classes loaded correctly, Clojure is inflexible in which classloader it lets you use.

And extending abstract classes in Clojure is really foul. I run a fork just to make that palatable (see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OcewjSpxmeFRQ3TizcaRRwlV34T8wl4wVED138FHFFE/edit?usp=sharing), and that also helps with the classloader issue.

All in all, Kotlin is much easier unless you’re extremely bloody minded 🙂

i really like clojure, but i am also practical. thank you for your help.

i thought cursive added support for resolving vas using import-vars from potemkin, but it doesn't seem the case 😞

this is rewrite-clj.zip namespace from https://github.com/xsc/rewrite-clj/blob/master/src/rewrite_clj/zip.clj

@helios It should do. What’s the FQN of the import-vars you’re using there?

It should be either potemkin/import-vars or potemkin.namespaces/import-vars.