clojure VS GNU Emacs

Compare clojure vs GNU Emacs and see what are their differences.

clojure

The Clojure programming language (by clojure)

GNU Emacs

Mirror of GNU Emacs (by emacs-mirror)
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clojure GNU Emacs
97 242
10,268 4,218
0.5% 1.5%
7.9 9.8
2 days ago 5 days ago
Java Emacs Lisp
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clojure

Posts with mentions or reviews of clojure. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-06.
  • Top Paying Programming Technologies 2024
    19 projects | dev.to | 6 Mar 2024
    5. Clojure - $96,381
  • A new F# compiler feature: graph-based type-checking
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Nov 2023
    I have a tangential question that is related to this cool new feature.

    Warning: the question I ask comes from a part of my brain that is currently melted due to heavy thinking.

    Context: I write a fair amount of Clojure, and in Lisps the code itself is a tree. Just like this F# parallel graph type-checker. In Lisps, one would use Macros to perform compile-time computation to accomplish something like this, I think.

    More context: Idris2 allows for first class type-driven development, where the types are passed around and used to formally specify program behavior, even down to the value of a particular definition.

    Given that this F# feature enables parallel analysis, wouldn't it make sense to do all of our development in a Lisp-like Trie structure where the types are simply part of the program itself, like in Idris2?

    Also related, is this similar to how HVM works with their "Interaction nets"?

    https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM

    https://www.idris-lang.org/

    https://clojure.org/

    I'm afraid I don't even understand what the difference between code, data, and types are anymore... it used to make sense, but these new languages have dissolved those boundaries in my mind, and I am not sure how to build it back up again.

  • Ask HN: Why does the Clojure ecosystem feel like such a wasteland?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Sep 2023
    As an analogy - my face hasn't changed all that much in a past few years, and I haven't changed my profile picture in those few years. Does it really mean that I'm unmaintained/dead?

    > Where can I find latest documentation [...]?

    The answer is still https://clojure.org/. And https://clojuredocs.org/ but it's community-maintained so might occasionally be missing some things right after they're released. E.g. as of this moment Clojure 1.11 is still not there since the maintainer of the website has some technical issues deploying the updated version of the website.

    For me personally, the best API-level documentation is the source code.

    > Where can I find [...] tools / libraries in a easy to use page or section?

    There's no central repository of all the available things since they can be loaded from many places (Clojars, Maven Central, other Maven repositories, S3, Git, local files).

    But there are community-maintained lists, like the one you've mentioned at https://www.clojure-toolbox.com (fully manual, AFAIK) or the one at https://phronmophobic.github.io/dewey/search.html (automated but only for GitHub). Perhaps there are others but I'm not familiar with them - most of the time, I myself don't find that much value in such services as I'm usually able to find things with a regular web search engine or ask the community when I need something in particular.

  • Why Lisp Syntax Works
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jun 2023
    They are written in Java, and implement a bunch of interfaces, so the implementation looks complicated, but they are basically just classes with head and tail fields.

    https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...

  • Best implementation of CL for learning purposes
    3 projects | /r/lisp | 28 Mar 2023
    As a Java/Scala user you should check out Clojure! It is highly recommended (https://clojure.org)
  • Why I decided to learn (and teach) Clojure
    5 projects | dev.to | 20 Mar 2023
    Lisp is not a programming language, but a family of languages ​​with many dialects. The most famous dialects include Common Lisp, Clojure, Scheme and Racket. So after deciding that I was going to learn Lisp, I had to choose one of its dialects.
  • Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2023
    I thought you might be trolling. But then when I looked at the Clojure repo on Github https://github.com/clojure/clojure the last commit was 2 months back. There is some merit in your arguments.
  • Advent of Clojure - looking for feedback
    5 projects | /r/Clojure | 12 Jan 2023
    1 - partial is defining a new function that ignores the type hints from func, and would introduce boxing. It also can introduce a performance hit for (remaining) argument arities > 3, since it automatically invokes a varargs variant instead of providing a concrete arity. With the varargs version, in profiling you may see RestFn showing up on hot paths, which is the varargs implementation having to munge seqs every invocation instead of being able to use concrete args matching discrete arities. Depending on the frequency of invocation this may impact performance.
  • The Holy Trinity of Clojure
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Dec 2022
    I love Clojure, but the Java source is oddly formatted which I never understood: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/527b330045ef35b47a96...
  • Is there any currently working way to import a local Java .jar library into a Clojure project?
    3 projects | /r/Clojure | 1 Dec 2022
    I'm using Leiningen to set up the project, so it seems that the guide on clojure.org does not apply. And in the Leiningen Docs I couldn't find anything...

GNU Emacs

Posts with mentions or reviews of GNU Emacs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • How to combine daily journal with general database of people, places, things, etc.
    3 projects | /r/datacurator | 10 Dec 2023
    If you want to spare a couple of detours, you probably could start with Emacs Org-mode according to Greenspun's eleventh rule: "Any sufficiently complicated PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."
  • Microsoft is exploring adding a command line text editor into Windows, and it wants your feedback
    6 projects | /r/Windows11 | 9 Dec 2023
    Emacs: winget install GNU.Emacs
  • Emacs and Shellcheck
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Oct 2023
  • Free Tech Tools and Resources - MAC Lookup, SQL Tutorials, JSON Converter & More
    2 projects | /r/SysAdminBlogs | 14 Sep 2023
    GNU Emacs is a versatile, open-source text editor that offers extensibility and customization—a sort of self-documenting real-time display editor. Our thanks for the suggestion go to CartanAnnullator.
  • VScode vs Others: the War on Code Editors
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Jun 2023
    Emacs
  • Proof of Concept clang plugin that automatically binds C/C++ -> Lua
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 3 Jun 2023
    Their DEFUN and DEFVAR macros for example let us define a function or a variable that will be available as a Lisp function, and can be used as an ordinary C function from the C code. Emacs is written in pure C99 language and works with both GCC and Clang I believe. We can just define a C function via macro, and it is auto exported and made available to Lisp. For example my first patch to Emacs was for this function (we added "count" argument to make it possible to skip enumerating files in a directory for the case when user code is just interesting if a directory is empty or not):
  • What's you preferred inbox tool and why?
    5 projects | /r/gtd | 18 May 2023
    - digital world,, Emacs Org Mode with Orgzly and Syncthing (to synchronize between devices)
  • How to fix Emacs constant freezing on long lines?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 11 May 2023
    If you're like me and you are a hard fan of word wrapping, in emacs 29, it looks like they added two variables which you can modify so emacs would perform better (performance is still not as smooth as vscode): long-line-threshold and large-hscroll-threshold. long-line-threshold works this way: if there exists a line in the current buffer that has more characters than the specified value, emacs would start the performance functionalities. Also large-hscroll-threshold also work the same way as long-line-threshold but it starts the performance functionalities when the wrapped line becomes more than the specified value. I'm not exactly sure if the conditions for both long-line-threshold and large-hscroll-threshold should be met for the perfomance functionalities to be enabled or only one of them meeting the condition would cause the functionalities to start. You can also see if the functionalities are enabled in the current buffer by evaluating the function long-line-optimizations-p. If evaluating (long-line-optimizations-p) returns nil, it means the performance improvements aren't applied, if it returns non nil, it means they are enabled. You can read more in here: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/NEWS.29 . Search for "Emacs is now capable of editing" in that page and the section about these features would come up. You should also disable features related to bidirectional editing and stuff.
  • Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2023
  • Is the official GNU Emacs up to date?
    2 projects | /r/emacs | 27 Apr 2023
    Yes, the documentation is up to date. If you browse the commit history you will notice that many of the commits are changes to the documentation. Emacs is a living, breathing application and IDE.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing clojure and GNU Emacs you can also consider the following projects:

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE

racket - The Racket repository

Atom - :atom: The hackable text editor

spacemacs - A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!

uemacs - Random version of microemacs with my private modificatons

org-roam-ui - A graphical frontend for exploring your org-roam Zettelkasten

malli - High-performance data-driven data specification library for Clojure/Script.

consult - :mag: consult.el - Consulting completing-read

vscode-org-mode - Emacs Org Mode for Visual Studio Code

KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP

doom - Doom Emacs config