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1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 02:52:46 EDT Don Romano (alt)

   I have tried to get started with Lisp multiple times now.

   I tried getting into Common Lisp earlier, but it took me half a day just to set up the tools. It felt extremely clumsy, and I lost interest when I realised that I'd also have to learn Emacs.

   Today, I tried setting up ClojureScript and it had me trying to piece together four different tool kits and their ecosystems in the first 30 minutes.

   Lisp itself looks elegant, but these heavy and cumbersome tools are a showstopper for me.

   1. Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Apr-2019 02:57:38 EDT Don Romano (alt)

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      You could tell me that I could just run the REPL and play with that, but that's not what the READMEs tell me to do. They tell me to set up a project folder and run the REPL in an editor, and that's where it gets cumbersome.

      The very first ClojureScript extension I could find for Visual Studio Code wanted me to set up nREPL and that's apparently not supported by the standard project templates, and I don't know how they work yet, so I don't understand the instructions for modifying them.