Clojurians Log v2

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heya, is anyone using protorepl?

I think most ProtoREPL users migrated to Chlorine once ProtoREPL stopped being maintained (and, I think, was broken by changes to Ink?)

(no updates to ProtoREPL in almost two years now 😞 )

Ah, thanks for the response. I just found it and the features look amazing, but yeah ran into several breaking issues

There's a #chlorine-clover channel and the maintainer is super responsive.

thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!

I'm curious why so many promising editors seem to not work out

I posted some videos on YouTube showing how I use Atom/Chlorine with Cognitect's REBL. Plus I also have https://github.com/seancorfield/atom-chlorine-setup which has some additional setup for Chlorine (esp. if you use REBL).

ProtoREPL was great for several years. I switched from Emacs/CIDER to Atom/ProtoREPL after I saw Jason show it off at Conj one year.

I liked Atom enough to stick with it, so I was happy when Chlorine appeared (esp. since I wanted to get away from nREPL).

What don't you like about nREPL?

I'll answer that by saying what I prefer about Socket REPL: it's built into Clojure -- no dependencies; any Clojure process can start a Socket REPL with zero code -- you just add a JVM option when you start the process; that means you can REPL into any process, regardless of whether you planned ahead; all those REPLs are the same -- so your dev tooling can work exactly the same way with your local REPL and your remote processes.

I also really like "spartan" tooling -- like Stu Halloway talks about (in conference talks and on podcasts) and Eric Normand also seems to support in his REPL-Driven Development course on http://PurelyFunctional.tv 🙂