Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure

 (blog.phronemophobic.com)

76 points | by todsacerdoti 4 days ago

3 comments

  • Pelayu 1 hour ago
    Amazing project!

    >While the JVM solves lots of hard problems, it has one major weakness, the UI libraries provided by the JVM (Swing and JavaFX) are clunky and dated.

    I also feel this; it's what puts me off writing GUI apps in Clojure. I have hope that natively compiled Clojure implementations like Jank that could interact with C or C++ libraries could help with this.

  • oxalorg 2 hours ago
    This sounds very close to my dream IDE, I've always wanted to build a smalltalk + emacs like editor/ide in Clojure but never got around to it.

    I wanted to try Easel but there were no instructions how. This is how I got it running:

      git clone [email protected]:phronmophobic/easel.git
  clj -X:deps prep
  clj
  # now in repl
  => ((requiring-resolve 'com.phronemophobic.easel/run))
  • sroerick 4 days ago
    Hey, this is absolutely amazing