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zakkor1 · 2024-05-23 10:07:57

That's a bug in the JS interpreter they're running, not anything related to Clojure. Also, that's not a syntax error

theanonymousone | karma 325 | avg karma 1.39 · | 2024-04-25 16:53:05

It shows, interestingly, a ClojureScript error for me.

revskill | karma 2173 | avg karma 0.97 · | 2022-11-18 07:46:19

This is Clojure, not Javascript though.

brehaut | karma 594 | avg karma 4.37 · | 2011-06-03 22:23:38+00:00

I'll look into fixing then. Do you have any suggestions for good syntax highlighting to use from either clojure or javascript?

iLemming | karma 1391 | avg karma 1.41 · | 2020-02-06 18:04:07+00:00

You seem to have no idea what you're talking about. There are actually fewer parentheses in Clojurescript than in the similar code in JS+JSX.

yogthos | karma 3764 | avg karma 2.9 · | 2015-08-19 18:04:41

>You basically write ClojureScript in JavaScript syntax.

Why?

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ngrilly | karma 2494 | avg karma 1.68 · | 2017-10-25 09:10:33+00:00

Maybe ClojureScript is doing something Clojure doesn't at compilation time…

felideon | karma 1513 | avg karma 2.76 · | 2011-07-21 13:48:10+00:00

Thanks, it makes sense now also thanks to brehaut's comment. I hadn't realized it actually _is_ a Clojure implementation in JavaScript.

Edit: Actually that's not strictly true. "What ClojureScript is Not" https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Core-blog-post...

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elwell | karma 4299 | avg karma 1.76 · | 2016-05-09 01:31:54

I suppose Clojure devs needn't learn ClojureScript anymore. ;)

gleenn | karma 2799 | avg karma 3.64 · | 2024-05-22 19:28:20

That has more to do with Javascript being weird than Clojurescript. That would almost certainly throw a good exception when using Clojure / Java.

abritinthebay | karma 1846 | avg karma 1.04 · | 2017-05-08 04:54:20+00:00

Well... then you're writing Clojure/Lisp, not JavaScript.

Nothing wrong with that as such but it's a completely different thing.

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LyndsySimon | karma 4208 | avg karma 1.98 · | 2017-03-10 15:51:18+00:00

Cool. This explains why the better I understood Clojure, the more my Javascript started to look lispy.

xntrk | karma 136 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2016-12-06 17:57:16+00:00

Does anyone know what this means for clojurescript?

dopamean | karma 6045 | avg karma 4.42 · | 2016-02-25 16:47:28+00:00

Clojurescript is not "also known as" Clojure.

smcn | karma 381 | avg karma 1.65 · | 2022-08-05 03:23:34

It's not a javascript compiler as Clojure is a hosted language.

sesm | karma 878 | avg karma 2.03 · | 2021-06-16 19:54:57+00:00

(+ 1 “1”) is not a type error for CLJS, because it’s not a type error for JS. Clojure is designed as a hosted language and it shares all the basic types and operations with the host platform.

betenoire | karma 1245 | avg karma 2.27 · | 2016-02-25 16:59:55+00:00

That's not what he said:

aka. Clojure (...) compiled to JavaScript

You stopped reading a few words too soon :)

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wnfewnlkew | karma 4 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2015-12-06 20:57:16+00:00

Clojure is a functional language, so it meshes well with the rest of the syntax, but in javascript's case it's just syntax bloat. It's going to be really jarring in the middle of regular imperative code, and it's not going to be too far removed from

  cout << "foo";

kaoD | karma 3508 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2013-05-14 04:34:10+00:00

That was not my experience with Clojurescript. I might have to try it again.

__ryan__ | karma 564 | avg karma 3.05 · | 2022-10-07 16:45:38

I’m not super familiar with Clojure, but I tried to read through the link you shared. I certainly could be missing something, what can Clojure’s destructuring do that JavaScript cannot?