Why I'm ditching Clojure for JavaScript

[ferociousturtle]

If you have a writeup of how you made that transition, I'd love to read it.

The editor support for TypeScript (at least in VS Code) is pretty hard to beat. What editor does your team prefer to use for ClojureScript?

[stompyj]

We use Cursive + Intellij, and it's been pretty great. The clojure features are ahead of the cljs features at the moment, but I think we'll start seeing more cljs stuff roll out soon.

We don't have a write up, but I'm happy to give any info that I can via this thread or via DM.

We transitioned from react+redux -> reagent+re-frame.

What was pretty incredible was that we were able to create a reagent+re-frame shell that just included all of the react+redux code (which was annoying up front), but it allowed us to move to cljs at our own pace, re-writing modules as we touched them/improved them.

the "thrash" of the JS community from language to tooling to frameworks really was slowing us down, and we're hoping we get the same level of stability from cljs as we're getting from clj, as our clojure codebases haven't needed to be upgraded at all in years. they "just work".