On 2025-01-07, the Clojure visual-tools group had its 28th meeting. This was the second of a series of meetings where people would demonstrate their Clojure workflows with different tools.
@practicalli demonstrated Neovim with Conjure, Portal for data inspection, and Parinfer for structural editing
recording
text chat
The meeting’s Zoom chat has been quite detailed, with many people helping each other and sharing their experiences.
We kept the text here at the Zulip chat (requires login): #visual-tools>meeting 28.
Mykhaylo Beliansky went over an emacs setup for clojure and demo using the combination of tools for REPL driven development in clojure. Mykhaylo’s libraries for emacs-clojure integration, like babashka.el and context-transient.el, were used to create that setup in a convenient way.
@practicalli demonstrated the Neovim + Conjure workflow developing a project that provides an API using reitit & httpkit, with mulog for event logs. Outline:
Quick overview of Neovim, Conjure and Practicalli Astro (config for Neovim with a focus on Clojure)
Starting a REPL & Connecting,
Evaluating results inline & via the REPL log
Tapping REPL evaluation results & mulog events to Portal
Structured editing with parinfer & paredit
Clojure LSP for navigation and code refactor tools
Running tests
A brief mention of DAP (debugging project from Conjure author)
Thanks everyone for showing off your workflows! And thanks to @daslu for being a great community organizer!
I’m quite sure I will adopt the ^:interactive metadata and then an Emacs dispatch function to interact with the project based on that. The demonstration of snitch makes me interested in trying that out as well.
And from @onetom keeping state of the last ran test and running that test again if the cursor isn’t on a new test as the main specific unit test interaction is a clever idea!
A bit jealous of the structural editing movement of key/value pairs inside a map or let in Cursive.
