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wltrtoday at 9:57 AM2 repliesview on HN

So, Java instead of wasm, but open source. While LogSeq is an open source copycat (not really) of Obsidian, I simply can’t stand it. I have tried Penpot a couple of years back, so cannot say anything about it, with the exception that I noticed it’s Clojure. Would love to learn more if someone can comment on that. I guess I’m biased against Java, but I’m not experienced with it, so I may be very wrong on that one. Of course having an open-source Figma around feels empowering, so much it is ingrained into the current dev process.


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nuriaiontoday at 10:03 AM

Penpot is also implemented in Clojure/ClojureScript. ClojureScript is a Clojure Dialect which compiles down to JavaScript. So there is no Java involved on the frontend :)

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Mashimotoday at 11:46 AM

At least the linked repository contains 0% Java.

Clojure 79.2%

JavaScript 7.2%

SCSS 6.0%

Rust 4.7%

HTML 1.4%

Shell 0.4%

Other 1.1%

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