![]() It’s better if they understand Lisp code but it’s not a deal breaker for learning Clojure. If you want to use another editor, so be it. When I compare myself to another clojurian, productivity is generally decided by knowledge of the language and libraries, not the editor. Intellij and Cursive is much easier to use and almost as powerful. Me, personally, I don’t care what editor you use. This is not done by simple statements but by a general culture of jokes saying things such as “you are wrong if you don’t use emacs”. The way Emacs is hurting Clojure is by Clojurians maintaining this myth that you need to use Emacs for Clojure. Other editors these days are also very powerful and although not as much as Emacs, their usage is intuitive so you can achieve a higher level of proficiency just by using it, without spending time and effort in becoming better at it. Human brains are very good at forgetting pain. Learning Emacs or Clojure is hard enough. Yeah, most Clojurians know how to use it by now and they suffer from bias: “it’s not that hard” they say. Emacs has a long tradition in the Lisp communities as it’s written, in a big part, in a flavor of Lisp called Emacs Lisp.īecause of its history, it handles Lisp code wonderfully, with automatic correct indentation, paraedit, integration with REPLs, etc. Emacs is a very powerful text editor and its popularity amongst Clojurians is easily understood.
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