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CIDER: Inside the Brewery (f(by) 2016)
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Bozhidar Batsov
December 14, 2016
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CIDER: Inside the Brewery (f(by) 2016)
Slide-deck from talk at the f(by) conference in Minsk.
Bozhidar Batsov
December 14, 2016
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Transcript
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Вітаю!
Bozhidar
Божидар
Божо cool
Bug cool
Sofia, Bulgaria
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A (Dark) Knight of the Order of Emacs
@bbatsov
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Why I am here?
I am a storyteller!
CIDER: Inside The Brewery
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A story about a different kind of cider…
Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks
… for Emacs
Is Emacs the One True Editor that will bring balance
to the Source?
Absolutely!
Primary Clojure dev environment (2015) Other 10% LT 5% fireplace
12% Cursive 27% CIDER 46%
–Nancy Pearcey “Competition is always a good thing. It forces
us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.”
Near future (optimistic) Other 10% CIDER 90%
Near future (worst case) Cursive 34% Other 15% CIDER 51%
Customer Testimonials
“Using CIDER is exciting. You never know if cider-jack-in will
work or not!” — Mich Hickey
I used to wonder a lot how to get an
adrenaline rush - now I simply upgrade CIDER! — Alex Killer
CIDER’s learning curve is amazing! I’m still amazed it never
ends! — Zach Hellman
Half the things in Emacs and CIDER seem magic to
me. Every time I use them I feel like a wizard! — Anna Parenlicka
A not so long time ago in a galaxy not
far away…
Java, C# and PHP ruled the dev world
The Lisp Masters from the Republic of Great Programmers were
on the run
Lisps were out of fashion
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A gentleman & a scholar
Clojure
Biggest Clojure problem at launch?
((((((((((()))))))))))
0 Clojure development environments
Emacs was the last Lisp stronghold
Emacs is the greatest Emacs Lisp dev environment
SLIME
Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs
SLIME Features • REPL • Interactive evaluation • Compilation notes
• Code completion • Definition lookup • Documentation lookup • Apropos
SLIME Features • Debugger • Value inspector • Tracing •
Find usages • Macroexpansion • Scratchpad • Minibuffer code evaluation
SLIME is an IDE
Interactive Development Environment
Programs are built in a very incremental manner
SLIME (Emacs Lisp) SWANK (Common Lisp) Clozure RPC LispWorks CMUCL
ABCL SBCL Client Server Backends
2008
clojure-mode & swank-clojure
SLIME (Emacs Lisp) SWANK (Common Lisp) swank-clojure
A star was born
In 2010 around 70% of the Clojurians were developing in
Emacs!!!
swank-clojure • Requires knowledge of swank (Common Lisp) • Bundles
a frozen SLIME version • Subpar features (e.g. debugger, inspector, find usages) • Monolithic (no swank plugins)
SLIME is a Common Lisp tool
2010
Another esteemed gentleman & scholar
nREPL
A common foundation for Clojure development tools
•Load (compile) a Clojure source file •Evaluate a Clojure form
•Interrupt evaluation •Read from the standard input
Extensible via middleware
2012
nrepl.el
nrepl.el (Emacs Lisp) nREPL (Clojure)
A workhorse is retired
nrepl.el • lacked many SLIME features • relied heavily on
evaluation of inlined code • made assumptions about the environment • flawed bencode parser
2013
Don’t settle for good. Demand great!
–Phil Karlton “There are only two hard things in Computer
Science: cache invalidation and naming things.”
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Clojure Integrated Development Environment & REPL
Clojure Interactive Development Environment Reimagined
Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks
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CIDER Features • Interactive evaluation • Compilation notes • Code
completion • Definition lookup • Documentation lookup • Apropos
CIDER Features • Value inspector • Command selector • Tracing
• Macroexpansion • Debugger • Scratchpad • Minibuffer code evalution
CIDER Features • Javadoc support • Jump to Java definition
• Jump to resource • Sanity-preserving stacktraces • clojure.test integration • namespace browser
CIDER Features • classpath browser • grimoire integration • dynamic
indentation • dynamic font-locking • nREPL session manager • Smart namespace reloading • ClojureScript support
Extensions (are easy)
Refactoring support (clj-refactor + refactor-nrepl)
Demo Time
CIDER tastes better than SLIME
CIDER tastes better than some IDES
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Bulgarian Liberation Day 2016
CIDER 0.11 (Bulgaria)
Require Clojure 1.7+
Require Java 7+
Run all loaded/project tests
Enlighten
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Auto-injection of CIDER’s dependencies
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Clojure/west 2016
CIDER 0.12 (Seattle)
Conditional breakpoints
Step-in while debugging
Test result improvements
Zenburn & Solarized support
cider-auto-test-mode
Eldoc improvements
Display docstring on mouse hover
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Totally reorganized menus
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One more thing…
A Real Manual
A Real Manual
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http://cider.readthedocs.org/
CIDER 0.13 (California)
Eldoc improvements
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Unified evaluation commands keymap
C-c C-v something
cider-eval-sexp-at-point
C-c C-v (C-)v
Tracking of evaluated expressions
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“See also” section in doc buffers
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A cornucopia of small additions and improvements
CIDER 0.14 (Berlin)
Display spec in doc buffers
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Re-run last test
C-c C-t (C-)g
The usual mix of bug fixes, small additions and improvements
What’s still missing?
•Find usages •Built-in refactoring tooling •Better ClojureScript support •Support for
the new Clojure socket REPL CIDER 1.0
Why CIDER?
Integrated Development Environment (a.k.a. IDE)
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Emacs
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Spacemacs
Emacs users know how to build productive Lisp workflows
•Emacs (ultimate Elisp dev env) •SLIME (and SLY) •Geiser •racket-mode
•CIDER (obviously)
• paredit • smartparens • rainbow-delimiters • rainbow-identifiers • sexp-fu
• paxedit • lispy
Community impact
cider-nrepl https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl
refactor-nrepl https://github.com/clojure-emacs/refactor-nrepl
compliment https://github.com/alexander-yakushev/compliment
cljs-tooling https://github.com/gtrak/cljs-tooling
nREPL improvements
Open development
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158 contributors!
Please, send more help!
Дзякуй!
Felina