Re: Clojure mode

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 22:08:57 +0300
> From: "Bozhidar Batsov" <bozhidar@batsov.dev>
> Cc: "Dmitry Gutov" <dmitry@gutov.dev>, "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>,
>  "Danny Freeman" <danny@dfreeman.email>, "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
>  "Manuel Uberti" <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>
> 
> Support for it is just one package-install command away, so I'd say Emacs 
> supports it almost out of
> the box. Not to mention that for a language like Clojure you also need some 
> REPL-interaction
> package to be able to evaluate code, so you won't get very far without an 
> extra package like
> inf-clojure or CIDER. Re-implementing those would be a huge waste of time IMO 
> and fracture an
> already tiny programming community. 

Which is why we prefer to include these existing packages, not to
invent new ones.

> To me it makes little sense to have support for everything built-in, as this 
> doesn't scale very well.

We agree about that.  We are talking about clojure-mode, not about
everything.  Not every package offered for ELPAs triggers such
discussions, far from that.  Only very few do.