Nightcode at Mac App Store analyse

From my point of view, this has got to be the easiest way to implement a Clojure environment. Libraries are fetched as needed. A masterful, functional, zippy user interface. I am so very grateful to the author. That’s why I bought the product. Notwithstanding other solutions like counterclockwise, I have been waiting for this level of tool for years.

I love using Nightcode as a way to quickly iterate on an idea. It allows for a very fast and painless start, get right past the base configurations for a varaety of tasks and start programming.

Im trying to learn Clojure programming, and Ive been looking for a simple IDE that integrates well with the "leiningen" project and build management and provides a convenient clojure REPL and editor all in one package. Nightcode has all of that, and it is pleasant enough to use that I spent all day today with it writing and testing code. It didnt get in my way, but rather let me get on with my project. I give it four stars rather than five because, gosh, Im a clueless newbie, and because it looks to be a fairly "young" project. Money well spent.

I started learning Clojure about 6 months ago - and fell in love with it. My company recently bought out the diabetes business of another company and we have millions of technical documents of theirs to bring into our company. Unexpectedly, there were a few key functions that were overlooked….and some coding needed to be done. I’m not interested in writing yet another Java program…but I thought "Ha!" let me use Clojure. All of a sudden, I needed a real IDE for real work. NC fit the bill nicely. The last release had a small bug. I contacted NC support and they fixed it immediately. This is simply a nice piece of sofwate - and the best $5 I’ve spent in a long time. Highly recommended.

Relatively new to clojure (but not Java). Evaluated various IDEs: Lighttable, IntelliJ LaClojure, Cursive, EMACs. This one seems to be the easiest to use, has nice extra non-project REPL, and nice integration with Leiningen. Also seems to have nice built-in reflection documentation. One start subtracted for lack of documentation. For example, how do you do lein deps in the project??

I feel compelled to leave this review, because I feel like the 4 and 5 star reviews are symptoms of the fact that Clojure has no modern IDE. There is LightTable, which is equally as annoying as NightCode, is much slower, but has better REPL integration. There are also a handful of cumbersome command line tools. There, I said it: Clojure is cumbersome by nature, just like Java is, and it needs a good IDE to be efficient. It doesn’t have one. Nightcode is adequate, but it has so many annoying quirks. First of all, it is not accessible with mousing or menus, and it should be. It’s 2015. I have a mouse and a big screen. If Nightcode actually had any sort of manual, I might be less annoyed by it’s lack of a GUI, but there’s no manual I can find. So I’m sitting here not able to do simple Find-and-Replace features that every other IDE app — or even text editor — can do with ease. A three star rating is my gift for the fact that it is the best of a group of horrible alternatives.