u/visibletrapin r/Clojure • Recommends
Part 1 - how Clojure is used at Defold and why
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Intro - how Clojure is used at Defold and why
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- Recommended by 2 people: 2 in engineering communities.
- Presented by Mats Gisselson, Defold editor team
- Made by the vendor. The company whose product it covers made or sponsored it.
- May be out of date. Uploaded 8 years ago, in an area where tools change fast.
Beginner. No background in the topic needed.
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Programming languagesGame developmentLisp and ClojureUnity, Unreal and Godot
Mats Gisselson explains why the Defold team chose Clojure to build their game engine editor and how they use it.
Clojure beginner tutorial is delivered by Mats Gisselson of Defold editor team. Full playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXsXu5srjNlxI7b2smnHxDeMMwR4mVZ2m Note 1: the audience mic failed, so the questions audio has been extracted from a backup dictaphone. Hence the quality. Note 2: we're hiring: king.com/jobs?locations=all&roles=all&keywords=defold&search…Why it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a real-world example of using Clojure to build desktop applications.
u/Eno6ohngin r/Clojure • Recommends
On “How do you see the future of Lisp? Does Common Lisp have one?”
…it's more "people" than "businesses". For example, lots of people will never use any desktop software written in java, but if we're talking about businesses than clojure niche is server-side development, and jvm isn't a problem at all there (quite the contrary) for 99 out of 100 businesses. Though some people write desktop apps in jvm clojure too: link to this video
I'd say that if we're talking about emotions, I'm guilty of that too: for example, I'd like an official separate clojurescript tooling that doesn't depend on jvm (in fact, I don't completely understand why clj tool jvm dependencies aren't isolated in protocols - maybe community could've ported it to js then?). I would agree that it can be…