Lisp

Gerbil v0.18-rc1, the first release candidate for Gerbil v0.18 is ready!

• Release announcement: https://github.com/mighty-gerbils/gerbil/discussions/983
• Release tag and changelog: https://github.com/mighty-gerbils/gerbil/releases/tag/v0.18-rc1

Happy Hacking!

Happy to share the first release of ClojureScriptStorm, a dev compiler that tries to bring the same experience as ClojureStorm does for Clojure (automatic instrumentation) to ClojureScript.

This dev compilers are created to improve the experience of using FlowStorm but are not coupled to it, so other tooling can be built on top of them.

It is a fork of the official ClojureScript compiler, with a patch on top to enhance it with automatic instrumentation. It currently supports cljs.main and shadow-cljs.

Here is the new user guide entry .

If you want to try it, be aware that it requires shadow-cljs >= 2.25.4

The current coordinates are com.github.jpmonettas/clojurescript {:mvn/version "1.11.60-2"} which applies the patch over 1.11.60 and the latest FlowStorm is com.github.jpmonettas/flow-storm-dbg {:mvn/version "3.7.5"}

The project is currently hosted here

If you want to use it for your own tooling, take a look at the current tests :

• setup
• functions tests, bodies tests, types tests

Hi folks,

is anyone of you teaching their kids Clojure as I do? A couple of years ago I decided to home school my kids because I wanted to teach them programming in a lispy language in conjunction with mathematics as early as possible (7+ years of age, after finishing their first year in the elementary school). So, I made a private course for my kids and created a series of hand-drawn comic textbooks full of maths combined with all the lispy goodness.

I thought it would be a nice experiment as I was not sure if the concept of LFL—Lisp as First (programming) Language can really work. You know, there are these theories that before fully appreciating a lispy language, you have to experience the horrors of ‘garbage languages’ first… Also, Clojure is not exactly a pedagogical language, is it? At some point, I was thinking about creating my own Lisp dialect for the purpose. But I wanted something to support functional approach, lazy evaluation, and having a collection of nice data structures, so why bother making another language if Clojure suits my needs (almost) perfectly (there are some features that I do not like that much but I guess nothing is perfect) and, yes, my spare time was also a limiting factor.

I have been doing this for five years now and it has been a fascinating journey. I really like how it works together with teaching maths and boosts abstract thinking. Some of my friends showed interest in what I was doing (apparently, they wanted the same fine education for their kids), so I decided to make an official series of books, the first was just published and can be purchased on Lulu (the plan is to make 3 volumes per year). In addition to that, I will be posting ‘my pedagogical notes’ (and later problem-oriented web-based programming environments) on Patreon for those who would like to follow this path. This project takes a substantial amount of my time, so any support from you fellow lispers is highly appreciated!

Project home with book preview: https://prog-mat.com

Any thoughts?