mockra

I’ve been playing around with Clojure for the last couple of days, and built a small web application that displays a repository’s commit messages. It’s a really simple app, but was a lot of fun to make. You can check out the app here: github_stories.

The syntax is going to take a while to get used to, but there are a lot of things I like about the language. One of the best features has to be leiningen, which is a great tool for managing clojure dependencies. Creating a noir application was as simple as running:

lein new noir github-stories

Leiningen will even install clojure for you, just install the script found here. I’m looking forward to picking up a book on clojure in the near future and learning the language. I’ve heard a lot of good things about functional languages and the benefits of learning one of them.