Atom, Chlorine, and Cognitect's REBL

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My first ever screencast https://youtu.be/ZhzMoEz4j1k showing my workflow with Atom, Chlorine, and REBL.

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Thanks Sean for sharing your workflows!

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You did a very nice job with this video Sean. Thanks for sharing. I hope you do more!

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That was very interesting, thanks Sean!

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Thanks, that was useful, especially example of using REBL!
I used to code in Atom, but couldn’t tolerate the typing latency, doesn’t it annoy you?

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It does annoy me sometimes, yes. What have you switched to instead?

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VS Code currently, but I guess Emacs is inevitable next stop :grinning:

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That’s amazing! Thanks for sharing!

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I found this very eye-opening in a couple of respects.

  1. Chlorine is totally capable as a Clojure plugin. I’ve been encouraging my undergrad students to learn Clojure. I think in the future I might change my default recommendation from Spacemacs to Atom.

  2. Although I haven’t doubted that REBL is a useful tool, I’ve struggled to connect it to my daily workflow in a compelling way. In particular, I didn’t realize that you could send REPL results there in addition to having a regular REPL connected. Very cool. Also, the combination of a solid system definition, generated data (presumably from spec), and REBL was even more compelling.

Lastly, for continuity’s sake, here’s a forward link to Sean’s post about his second screencast.

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I switched from Emacs to Atom a few years back – after seeing Jason Gilman present ProtoREPL at Clojure/conj – and I’ve been very happy with a more modern (and ultimately much simpler) editing environment. Then I switched from ProtoREPL to Chlorine late last year. Being able to do everything via just a Socket REPL means you can just stick a JVM option on any Clojure process and connect into it from Atom, with no additional dependencies needed (the compliment library is optional, but you won’t get auto-complete in Atom without it).

As for REBL, yeah, the more I use it, the more I find it core to my workflow – have you watched the core.memoize bug fix screencast yet? I leverage tap> and REBL in that very heavily to debug the problem.

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have you watched the core.memoize bug fix screencast yet?

Yes! I really enjoyed that one as well. You earned my subscription on YouTube, and I’m looking forward to the next one. :slight_smile:

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Thanks. I’m thinking about building a small web app from scratch, using the add-lib branch of tools.deps, so you can stay in a deps.edn REPL and add new dependencies dynamically.

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I would very much like to see that. :slight_smile:

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