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Vim is not an editor. It's an idea. Incredible and awesome idea. And Emacs has one of the best implementations of that idea. Try Spacemacs and maybe you'd realize that Emacs can vim better t…

Every few years, some new IDE comes out, and people like "Yeah, Emacs is done." We've seen this so many times. But after over forty years, Emacs is still here, and it is being developed…

Have you seen EXWM? What do you mean by "control center" anyway?

Whatever you do, no matter what field you specialize at, if you use a computer, you need to try to minimize the frustration. Frustration comes (mostly) from repetitive, mundane tasks. Whatever can be …

Just pronounce it similar to how "crap" sounds in German. I don't mean to undermine the quality of this library but after using Clojure and EDN for a while, I honestly think the proper …

I've been seeing a lot of talks about darkland and can't find a single example of code. Can someone show me at least how does it look like?

That is very true. Even spending years writing nodejs projects I have never felt what truly "code-reuse" is about. Even with the same language being on both sides there's a huge differe…

No need to be bitter just because you have failed to grasp what the language offers. There are good reasons why people keep discovering it and keep talking about it. Clojure is not "owned" b…

> Why Lisp Failed... All Emacs users: "Are we a joke to you?"

I wonder how software is engineered for those machines. Languages used, etc.

I've never used Common Lisp, I know some Clojure, used emacs-lisp, tried Racket, Fennel. I love Lisps. But I always wondered: What happened to Common Lisp? Some of the opinions I heard: - CL is t…

When people complain about JVM, very often it turns out that they hate the first letter in it. I felt the same, for very long time I ignored Clojure because I hated "Java" part of JVM. It tu…

> A lot of programming languages today, like javascript, already has functional stuff within it Yeah, but there's more to it than just that. You can find bits and pieces of good things in Cloj…

> I wish more people ... I think Clojure will be fine. It is slowly and steadily growing. I honestly think it has reached well beyond the point where it can fade away. People always bring Common Li…

I think the reason why Clojure (alongside with F#) is the most paid language (according to StackOverflow and State of JS surveys) because more and more FinTech companies are discovering that the langu…

One of the best practical Clojure books in my opinion is this one: https://www.manning.com/books/clojure-the-essential-referenc... . IMO it's a second "must read" b…

> not worth it over Javascript It absolutely is. As someone who's dealt with JS/TS/Coffeescript and a bunch of other "scripts" that compile, transpile to Javascript for ver…

> I have had a developer who had wrote production ClojureScript tell me it was the worst of all worlds You know how it sounds? It sounds like: "yeah I like rock music, but I think I don't…

> good luck finding a Clojure programmer Why nobody ever says: "good luck finding good Javascript developers"? Or good Java programmers. Why it became a default norm: every programmer is …

Taxation and other regulatory, bureaucratic nuances

I think the problem with almost all mainstream languages today that they are morally outdated. I feel for the next decade the industry will be striving for programming languages optimized either for d…

Clojure is kinda unique. It minimizes vector of frustration by merely not allowing needless garbage. Commas are the whitespace - totally makes sense. No bullshit stuff like semicolons. How many preced…

> So, whether you prefer an imperative, functional, object-oriented, or pipelined approach The problem with this: if you give people a multi-paradigm language, they'd be using all of them. Oft…

I've been reading the comments, and sorry, I can't help it. Every time I read about (or try) some trendy thing in JS/Front-end world, I feel irritated and sad. Every single "big pr…

> (Clojure and F#) as being on life support I can't say anything about F#, but Clojure is doing quite alright. It gathers more conferences and meetups around the world (more than Haskell, OCam…

Alright. You are right, I re-read my reply to you, my tone indeed looks indignant (wasn't my intention), you haven't said anything that merits such tone, I apologize for that. But I stand by…

In browsers you can install extensions that can help to navigate efficiently, but Slack App is not extensible that way. The purpose of the app is to allow an efficient exchange of textual information.…

SlackHQ, we are software developers, devops and QA engineers, data scientists and IT support specialists - we are your biggest user base! When we say it is not working, please, listen to us. Please, …

> Tab gets you there. maybe not fast, but it does. People choose keyboard-centric workflows: a) For efficiency (if it takes a few milliseconds to press a key, why would you even reach for the mouse…

Have you actually tried using Slack App without a mouse or a trackpad? I mean when I said "impossible" I didn't mean literally. Keyboard driven workflows are meant for fast, precise act…