Digital Digressions by Stuart Sierra
From programming to everything else
In the early days of Clojure, I was skeptical of Clojure-specific build tools like Lancet, Leiningen, and Cake. Why would Clojure, a part of the Java ecosystem, need its own build tool when there were already so many Java-based tools? At the time, I thought Maven was the last word in build tooling. Early Leiningen…
I’ve been thinking about how to build up software systems out of stateful components. In past presentations and blog posts I’ve alluded to a standard interface I use for starting and stopping stateful components: (defprotocol Lifecycle (start [this] “Begins operation of this component.”) (stop [this] “Ceases operation of this component.”)) Most of my Clojure programs…
I have a new post up on the Relevance blog: My Clojure Workflow, Reloaded. It’s a description of how I work with Clojure interactively using the REPL, tools.namespace, and Leiningen.