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dosync is a personal blog at swannodette.github.io about programming and web. Since 2013, 98 different Hacker News readers have linked it 161 times, most often “The Future of JavaScript MVCs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-01-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 7 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link David Nolen's posts on ClojureScript, Om, React and CSP-style concurrency, citing them as background for those ideas and calling some excellent.
- Recommended for · 7 comments
- Called excellent, pretty inspiring, a great introduction and well written; one says they go in depth on performance.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Future of JavaScript MVCs19 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2013-12-19
- Mori - use ClojureScript persistent data structures in vanilla JavaScript10 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2013-05-06
- Communicating Sequential Processes6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2013-07-13
- ES6 JavaScript Generators Deliver Go Style Concurrency4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-08-24
- Comparative Literate Programming (2013)4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-08-24
- 10,000 Processes4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-08-03
- Functional Programming Is A Scam3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-06-11
- The Essence of ClojureScript3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2013-10-28
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-01-15
- Logic Programming is Underrated (2013)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-08-06
What Hacker News says?
In other words futures are not as composable as one would hope. John Reppy's CML seems like a much better toolbox which gets composability without pretension. Vesa Karvonen (whom I understand has worked on the MLTon compiler) has offered an excellent delivery in Hopac for C# and F# complete with a slew of combinators: https://github.com/Hopac/Hopac I'm not aware of anyone offering an alternative superior to an infor…
Comment linking /2013/08/17/comparative
on “Zero-cost futures in Rust”Submitted The Future of JavaScript MVCs as a story · 564 points
HN discussionI understand that there are sometimes practical reasons for not being able to use ClojureScript, but have you given it a go? It's really very, very nice (much nicer than JS in pretty much every way). * Immutable data (you can get some of this in JS with Nolen's Mori http://swannodette.github.io/mori/ ) * Better functional programming than Underscore (map :mykey some-objects) * Great syntax: homoiconicity, thrush ope…
Comment linking /mori/
on “Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome”Submitted ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself as a story · 536 points
HN discussionYes a thousand million times. This is the reason why people love golang and why there's a lot of excitement about core.async in the Clojure community, particularly for ClojureScript where we can target the last 11 years of client web browser sans callback hell: http://swannodette.github.io/2013/07/12/communicating-sequen... Having spent some time with ClojureScript core.async I believe the CSP model actually has a l…
Comment linking /2013/07/12/communicating-sequential-processes/
on “Callbacks as our Generation's Goto Statement”Submitted ClojureScript Year in Review as a story · 288 points
HN discussionhttps://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs is how I got started with Cljs. If you scroll down, you'll see some tutorials that get you set up and lead you to a workflow. http://swannodette.github.io/2013/10/27/the-essence-of-cloju...
Comment linking /2013/10/27/the-essence-of-clojurescript/
on “The Future of JavaScript MVCs”Submitted Communicating Sequential Processes as a story · 268 points
HN discussionhttp://swannodette.github.io/todomvc/labs/architecture-examp... has "//# sourceMappingURL=app.js.map" but the file is missing.
Comment linking /todomvc/labs/architecture-examples/om/app.js
on “The Future of JavaScript MVCs”Submitted ClojureScript 101 as a story · 178 points
HN discussionI've seen two libraries suggested on the React mailing list: http://swannodette.github.io/mori/ https://github.com/hughfdjackson/immutable The first one uses the same data structures from ClojureScript.
Comment linking /mori/
on “The Future of JavaScript MVCs”Submitted A tool for thought as a story · 175 points
HN discussionThe first build of ClojureScript app is somewhat slow because we need boot the JVM, compile ClojureScript, and then analyze and compile your code. After the first compile it should be sub second. I always use the auto build mode and when I'm developing I don't use any optimizations. Works well enough for me. I'd start with this, http://swannodette.github.io/2013/10/27/the-essence-of-cloju...
Comment linking /2013/10/27/the-essence-of-clojurescript/
on “The Future of JavaScript MVCs”Submitted JavaScript Modularity Shaming as a story · 140 points
HN discussionDavid Nolen - http://swannodette.github.io/ James Long - http://jlongster.com/ I follow these guys for similar reasons. They always seem to be a couple steps ahead of the rest of the industry and it's frankly a little embarrassing how productive they are. Come to think of it maybe I'd feel better about myself as a programmer if I stopped following them...
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on “Ask HN: Which developers do you closely follow?”Submitted 100,000 DOM Updates as a story · 133 points
HN discussionPretty sure Om[1] for React Native is coming. >bloated code sizes, interop issues, poor runtime performance, etc I've heard about no such problems about ClojureScript. In fact there's less code size than you'd usually have because Google Closure Compiler advanced more works with it out of the box[2]. It's also fast because immutability. [1]: https://github.com/omcljs/om [2]: http://swannodette.github.io/2015/01/06/t…
Comment linking /2015/01/06/the-false-promise-of-javascript-microlibs/
on “First Impressions Using React Native”Submitted Waitin' (on Leiningen) as a story · 129 points
HN discussionThe source code for the post is available[1], as is the macro[2] which is loaded via XHR. The short of it is that a load function is passed to `cljs/compile-str`, which provides the mapping. In this case, it doesn't bother to do any mapping because it knows that it is loading `bar.core`. However, `bar-url` could instead be in a map from the namespace to the URL. Surprisingly simple, actually! 1. https://github.com/s…
Comment linking /assets/cljs/bar/core.cljs
on “ClojureScript 1.7: ClojureScript can compile itself”Submitted A Closer Look at Transit as a story · 122 points
HN discussionI agree that it sucks when the "worse" technology wins, but your points on why React is an example of one of these "worse" technologies are seriously misinformed regarding its shortcomings and have largely glossed over some of its most significant merits over existing technology. > React seems to be designed to ignore 40 years of accumulated software best practices. Best practices in software is not set in stone. So…
Comment linking /2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/
on “What is a coder's worst nightmare? (2014)”Submitted Logic Programming is Underrated as a story · 119 points
HN discussionRight, this is where you need to look at benchmarks http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...
Comment linking /2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/
on “Use ReactJS to Build Native Apps”Submitted Make No Promises as a story · 98 points
HN discussionSome early ideas have already hit the repo[1]. David Nolen has been focused on ClojureScript bootstrapping work[2] of late, but I expect he'll get back to Om Next in the coming weeks. 1. https://github.com/omcljs/om/blob/master/dev/om/dev.cljs 2. http://swannodette.github.io/2015/07/29/clojurescript-17/
Comment linking /2015/07/29/clojurescript-17/
on “Netflix Releases Falcor Developer Preview”Submitted Asynchronous Error Handling as a story · 56 points
HN discussionhttp://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc... https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3BLR31VA8cvLJLfMibSuTdw... Q.E.D Get your core model and concepts right, everything else follows.
Comment linking /2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/
on “Scala – 1 Star – Would Not Program Again”Submitted Comparative Literate Programming (2013) as a story · 34 points
HN discussionGood eye, it is built with Om. We've been pretty happy with it and even published a tool to help find performance bottlenecks: https://github.com/precursorapp/om-i For the unfamiliar, Om is a ClojureScript React wrapper that makes React much nicer to work with and adds some nice performance benefits out-of-the-box. Nolan's intro post is pretty inspiring: http://swannodette.github.io/2013/12/17/the-future-of-javasc...
Comment linking /2013/12/17/the-future-of-javascript-mvcs/
on “Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React”Submitted CSP is Responsive Design as a story · 28 points
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