Visual-tools meeting 27 - Workflow Demos 1: Emacs, Cider, VSCode Calva, Zulip - summary & recording

Adding the talk outlines from last Friday:

@adham presented Emacs and CIDER.

  • Why Emacs for Clojure?
  • The general toolkit
    • CIDER
    • A brief mention of navigating parens
    • Integration with Clojure LSP
    • Integration with Clj-kond
  • REPL Connectivity options
  • How Emacs fairs in the general developer workflow (e.g. Git/GitHub)

Jarret Atkinson presented VSCode Calva and additional setup.

  • What is calva + vscode?
  • How is language information retrieved?
  • How to customize calva?
  • Haystack
  • Custom VIM keybindings
  • Helpful editor commands
  • Portal + Portal test reporter
  • Extended completion engine