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Web Development in Emacs, Common Lisp and Clojurescript - Emacs SG

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Functional programmingTesting, debugging & developer toolsWeb development

What it is

Elias Martenson presents his Emacs-based workflow for building a web application (the Potato chat platform) with Common Lisp on the backend and ClojureScript on the frontend. He demonstrates SLIME, Paredit, CIDER and debugger-driven interactive development. The talk is 79 minutes and was given at Emacs SG.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters point to it as a live demonstration of interactive Lisp development, including compiling single functions in a running program and debugger-driven workflows.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “There is a fascinating talk by one of the authors on Youtube”

    Talk by an author of the Potato chat platform (Lisp backend, Clojurescript frontend).

    grovehaw, 2018-03 · Recommendation · in “Portacle – A Portable Common Lisp Development Environment”

  2. “This video also has great examples of other crazy interactive development workflows and is worth watching in its entirety”

    Shows interactive development workflows including debugger-driven development, worth watching in full.

    tgbugs, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Hell Is Other REPLs”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: emacs, common lisp, slime, clojurescript, repl-driven development

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