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

▲ Easel Turns One One year of building my own IDE in Clojure(blog.phronemophobic.com)

102 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 6 comments

▲ bobajeff 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Awesome work! I like the idea of being able to quickly make little tools in your IDE.

Coincidentally, lately I have been thinking of making an IDE using something like Theia or CodeMirror but am holding off because of time for my other projects.

▲ oxalorg 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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 git@github.com:phronmophobic/easel.git
  clj -X:deps prep
  clj
  # now in repl
  => ((requiring-resolve 'com.phronemophobic.easel/run))

▲ Pelayu 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	nha1 34 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Same. I wish Webview would work with GraalVM native compilation.
	▲	geokon an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		what specifically did you have issues with? i made a GUI with cljfx which uses JavaFX and I didnt really hit any issues (save for i have one bug on startup that ive had trouble ironing out). The app is snappy and feels as native as anything else Ended with a very modular functional GUI program the only thing i wasnt super happy about is that i couldnt package it as a simple .bin/.exe bc the jpackage system forces you into making an installer/application (its been a few years since, so its possible theres a graal native solution now) i highly recommend cljfx. Its the opposite of clunky

▲ sroerick 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Hey, this is absolutely amazing