Re: Clojure mode

[Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org>]

On 26/08/23 15:48, Danny Freeman wrote:
> To further re-iterate how much of a non-problem this is, the most recent
> survey done of Clojure developers found that 42% use Emacs as their
> primary development environment. If not being available out of the box
> was such a big issue for users of clojure-mode, then that number would
> not be so high.

My 2c.

Personally I am glad that all the people behind clojure-mode and CIDER 
decided to made their work available on NonGNU ELPA a while ago, just as 
I am happy clojure-ts-mode is available there.

I have always thought that NonGNU ELPA was a way to cope with issues 
such as this: people wanting to share their work (and considerable 
amount of time) on Emacs with others but not willing for whatever reason 
to go one step further and try GNU ELPA or even Emacs core.

Considering the popularity of clojure-mode (and CIDER) and with NonGNU 
ELPA being readily available, why is it so important to invest time and 
effort on re-creating a major mode? Put otherwise, should moving 
packages on NonGNU ELPA be considered sort of a temporary stage in the 
lifetime of a given package?

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Manuel Uberti
https://manueluberti.eu