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a reactive Clojure dialect for web development that uses a compiler to infer the frontend/backend boundary

Language: Clojure

Ask HN: What's the state of Clojure's ecosystem and community these days? | Oct 2023
Repping team Hyperfiddle here, we are super proud of:

https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric – a fully reactive Clojure dialect for web development that uses a compiler to infer the frontend/backend boundary. (BTW, Electric v3: Differential Electric is nearly here – Differential Dataflow for UI)

https://github.com/leonoel/missionary – Supervised dataflow programming for Clojure/Script. For full-stack web developers who struggle to build correct and glitch-free applications, Missionary is a reactive programming toolkit based on process supervision, that lets you build massively concurrent, fine-grained reactive systems on both frontend and backend. Unlike promises and go-routines that make it easy to write a broken program, Missionary’s combinators provide the right set of constraints to let you build a fully composable program that is also correct and bug-free.

Imba – The friendly full-stack language | Sep 2023
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Opa was ahead of its time by at least 10 years. Have you seen Electric Clojure [0]?

[0] https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure | Aug 2023
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Electric Clojure backends already get such effect supervision for free (you'll need to manually tag sync/blocking effects). https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric https://github.com/leonoel/missionary
Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter | Aug 2023
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As a self-taught seeker who spent 20 years in search of a better way, this is where I ended up for the heart of computer science. Most software engineering topics I picked up on the job — even distributed systems — but the actual computer science aspects I had almost zero exposure to at work. I had to seek those out, which meant rejecting the commercial methods/doctrines/thinking and escaping from Conway's Law which has infected anything touched by money. "It Is Difficult to Get a Man to Understand Something When His Salary Depends Upon His Not Understanding It"

I now see actual CS exposure in industry as rare broadly (you'd have to work in a research org, which is both rare and also requires a PhD or other credential for one to be selected for the opportunity). Furthermore, the bulk of the CS literature & papers I encountered is embedded in those three programming languages. Now editorializing: I think Haskell is like "the periodic table of computation" as well as basically "math notation for computational structures." These deep science-y topics are hard to learn outside of school, the material is dense and there's no clear and accessible trajectory to get there, and to even identify such at trajectory you need role models and teachers of which kind industrial programmers aren't exposed to.

In conclusion, I'd likely have gotten to where I am today at age 30 instead of 38 and regret the lost time wandering in the swamp of silicon valley arrogance. FWIW my startup is a CRUD Spreadsheet, we apply functional programming research to user interfaces and web development as per https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator | Aug 2023
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As I understand it https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric provides an abstraction at least over the network divide.
Clojure is a product design tool (2015) | Jun 2023
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thanks !

https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric

live tutorial - https://electric.hyperfiddle.net/
AI: First New UI Paradigm in 60 Years | Jun 2023
UI is a high frequency concurrency problem. The “deep rooted usability problems” (like lag, glitches, and clumsiness - general lack of fluency) are due to staffing UI projects with web designers and not concurrency engineers. The fluent conversational AI systems and other movie UIs that folks are imagining up are therefore blocked on the concurrency sub-problem. This is the space we research at Hyperfiddle, we put forth our proposed solution here: https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
Why I'm Leaving Elm (2020) | Jun 2023
Electric Clojure - https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
Isomorphic Development | Jun 2023
You might find Electric in Haskell interesting:

https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric

Managing State with Signals | May 2023
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https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric ?
Can Rust Beat JavaScript in 2023? | Apr 2023
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This should be present tense, at least in the ClojureScript case.

Recent cool developments on that side include Electric Clojure - generating transparently state passing front and backend code from a single DSL: https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric
Higher-Order Virtual Machine (HVM) | Mar 2023
how does Interaction Nets model compare with other concurrency models such as dataflow programming with Arrow? (For example, I maintain a distributed/reactive Clojure dialect for unified fullstack web development which seems to show a deep connection to HVM despite being based on dataflow not interaction nets - https://github.com/hyperfiddle/electric)