And not a single :require or outside library. Also, this pinball demo CLJS code seems to be being compiled directly within the browser. Want!
Let's go further. Imagine, a Clojure that directly produces WASM, without JS, without Google Closure. A Clojure that can target the browser and bring in NPM modules with alacrity, like shadow-cljs does today. This approximates the most forward-looking path for Clojure on web technologies I can think of at the moment.
Borkdude appears to have boundless energy. Just maybe, in the Clojure community, Borkdude is what comes after Chuck Norris memes. Does Borkdude ever sleep?
The original implementation: https://thegeez.net/2023/03/01/pinball_scittle.html
Squint website: https://github.com/squint-cljs/squint
The Wordle clone is less exciting but you can scroll down to see the source code and JS output more easily: https://squint-cljs.github.io/squint/?src=https://gist.githu...
I had a lot of fun using squint with solidjs. It pairs so well with minimal, focused libraries. Maybe it doesn’t give you any superpowers but make code a little cleaner and steer you away from few traps.
On my “nerd snipes” list I have project that merges squint and hwy framework. It sounds like bleeding edge for the sake of bleeding edge, but on the other hand sounds so compelling!
Lots more fun than I expected on my iPhone. Thank you
It runs far too quickly on Firefox for whatever reason.
Hey borkdude, this looks great! I've checked Squint and Cherry before but got confused about why 2 separated projects?
I mean this game is a rip-off of https://matthias-research.github.io/pages/tenMinutePhysics/i... So if you like the game then give the Matthias MĂĽller-Fischer some love.
Very fun game
For those who don't know:
Borkdude is a fairly big name in the Clojure community, most known for developing clj-kondo (static analysis tool used by clojure-lsp) and babashka (a Clojure interpreter built atop GraalVM native image so you can have fast startup times and decent performance writing scripts in Clojure).
"Squint" is a ClojureScript compiler of his that transpiles ClojureScript directly to JS while introducing as little runtime overhead as possible. For instance, the usual PersistantVector, PersistentHashMap, etc. data structures compile straight to ordinary vectors and maps in JS. This means they are technically mutable and have slightly different semantics underneath. The goal of Squint as far as I can tell is to be akin to ParenScript but for Clojure (a subset of the language implemented that compiles straight to human-like JS code).
ClojureScript itself is a compiler that takes Clojure code and transforms it into JS code that is processable by Google Closure Compiler's advanced optimizations. Unfortunately, betting on Google Closure proved to be bad, given that next to nobody in the modern JS ecosystem has used it in years. It also was the biggest reason for painful NPM integration in the past, though this has been mostly fixed thanks to externs inference by the CLJS compiler and tools like Shadow-CLJS that make use of Babel to run various transformations and pass NPM code into Closure's simple optimizations rather than advanced. This gives you bundles that are more or less equivalent to using Webpack with the terser plugin, but you still have painfully long compile times and the usual caveats of using Closure compiler.
Borkdude also has a CLJS to ES6 compiler called "Cherry", which behaves much more like ClojureScript compiler than Squint does (e.g. it actually implements persistent, immutable data structures and there is a runtime associated to it).
Squint has been gaining a bit of interest from ClojureScript developers since it theoretically offers the past of least resistance if you want to make use of "modern" JS tooling like Vite, esbuild, and so on. It also frees you from the externs issues that plague ClojureScript since you are no longer passing everything into Closure compiler.