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<div class="offset-by-two eight columns"><h1 id="what-s-up-with-cloxp-">What's up with cloxp?</h1>
<p>It's been almost a month since the initial <a href="/cloxp-intro.html">announcement of cloxp</a>. I haven't been lazy and worked on several features that will make the usage of cloxp hopefully fun and pleasant.</p>
<p>Here is an overview of the feature set of cloxp as of today:</p>
<h3 id="usage-and-access">Usage and access</h3>
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<li>as a Web IDE, spawning individual workspaces and requiring no installation</li>
<li>as a locally installed IDE, requiring a pre-installed JVM and node.js 0.10</li>
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<p>In both cases cloxp will connect to a Clojure process via nREPL.</p>
<h3 id="tooling">Tooling</h3>
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<li>System browser: explore and modify Clojure namespaces and namespace vars</li>
<li>"Scratch" workspaces: to support exploratory programming</li>
<li>Clojars browser: to search for and install dependencies at runtime</li>
<li>OS shell integration: to run whatever other process you may need, for example git. There are several tools that make use of this integration already like a directory browser</li>
<li>A flexible and very customizable windowing system: Based on Morphic and Lively Web; it allows to change how existing tools work, or create new ones, on the fly.</li>
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<h3 id="interactive-programming-and-debugging">Interactive programming and debugging</h3>
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<li>Watchers: cloxp allows to install "watchers" into code that will continuously gather data "flowing" through the instrumented expression.</li>
<li>Code evaluation: To run and inspect code, all clojure expressions can be evaluated.</li>
<li>Live eval: Instead of evaluating code by hand you can enable "live eval" in any clojure code editor. It will automatically re-evaluate the expressions in your workspace. Paired with watchers it is a powerful and fun way of working. If you used LightTables "instarepl" then you know this feature already.</li>
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<h3 id="sophisticated-code-editing-support">Sophisticated code editing support</h3>
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<li>Structural navigation and editing with paredit</li>
<li>Multiple cursors</li>
<li>UI and shortcuts are completely customizable</li>
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<h3 id="what-s-next-help-needed-">What's next? Help needed!</h3>
<p>Cloxp approaches a state in which I'm willing to call it "0.1.0". There are still plenty of bugs and other work left but I already had some very productive sessions (cloxp is entirely developed in itself, with all the fun and tears that this brings).</p>
<p>However, before I make a first release I want to ask a handful of people to test the environment and help unveil bugs and smooth out workflows. Also, I need help in other areas, for example getting a windows installer working (cloxp runs now on MacOS and Linux), to help flesh out tutorials and documentation, and more useful features.</p>
<p>If you are interested and willing to deal with alpha software please ping me, either at <a href="mailto:[email protected]?Subject=testing%20cloxp">[email protected]</a> or some other channel. Thanks!</p>
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