It’s like showing why ClojureScript is ClojureScript, and why it’s different and it should be learnt. If possibly that can be shown with a piece of code.

Actually i partially hate the fact that the standard library isnt completely supported so we have to always dip into the host api’s. A basic standard api should exist which is common everywhere and behaves exactly the same. The moment i have to think of CLJS and CLJ as two different entities there i…

An important aspect of Clojure/Script is immutability as a first class feature, which makes cljs use disciplined patterns for mutation. All mutation in clj/cljs is restricted to the atom defined in the app. React uses the same pattern but emulates it by means of defining interface functions to restr…

[image] pankajdoharey: Actually i partially hate the fact that the standard library isnt completely supported so we have to always dip into the host api’s. A basic standard api should exist which is common everywhere and behaves exactly the same. Very good point, I came to the same conclusion…

[image] borkdude: But just having a sane coherent language and tooling instead of JavaScript + NPM etc. is worth it. No ImmutableJS/Ramda/etc. needed, it’s all immutable and functional first. Indeed! Some time ago I tried PHP Laravel (+ Vue.js, +JavaScript, etc…) but quickly got fed up with t…

[image] dnolen: I was a JavaScript programmer and I was convinced. Why not use an arguably better programming language that scales from clients to multithreaded server programs? The only real mature competition in this space is Scala / Scala.js. Oh, don’t have to convince me either, but the t…

[image] didibus: ClojureScript? How do I convince a JavaScript Node backend dev to switch to ClojureScript? Etc. How can you demonstrate the differentiating value effectively and quickly for people looking into those other usage scenarios which don’t involve JVM Clojure? I think you nailed it…

Yup half of my friends who come from a ruby background outright disliked the idea that they have to know Java or look at Java docs to achieve any effect in their code. Infact this hatred towards Java is a very strong sentiment in the ruby community mostly because of the handy work of DHH, who himse…

[image] pankajdoharey: Because clearly clojure isnt attracting many people from other languages unless they had some kind of earlier interaction with lisp/scheme/elisp. No idea about others, but I have never seen a lisp before clojure & language experience php, coffescript, python & js. Trie…

[image] didibus: So I ask myself, how do I convince someone who doesn’t care to scale up to a JVM backend and have a common language accross the stack? How do I convince a python scripter of the benefits of switching to ClojureScript? How do I convince a JavaScript Node backend dev to switch to …

[image] pankajdoharey: Because clearly clojure isnt attracting many people from other languages unless they had some kind of earlier interaction with lisp/scheme/elisp. This simply isn’t true. Please look at the survey - 75% of Clojure users are Java, JavaScript, Python and Ruby programmers. <…

Which piece of code do you think makes ClojureScript significant?

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danielo515 April 11, 2018, 3:18pm 43

I think you nailed it. IMO that should be the main topic of this thread