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roguas10/04/20241 replyview on HN

> I didn't trust myself not to blow both my feet off with Clojure

But you are clojure engineer(by trade). Kinda weird, cause on the other end, I myself do backend in clojure but in frontend i much prefer js/svelte. (cljs tooling is making me cry, almost always)


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barrell10/04/2024

Heh the woes of a hosted language! I've always been interested in svelte, but it's incompatibility with ClojureScript always made it a non starter for me.

If you haven't given shadow-cljs a try though, it's worked wonders for me. Can be a little heavy to set up, and the configuration a little mind bending at times, but besides normally 1 rough day a year it works flawlessly the other 364 (a pretty good win ratio as far as js build tooling goes).

That and electric looks really promising!