phronmophobic/easel

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phronmophobic/easel.json

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Easel - A Pure Clojure IDE in the Spirit of Emacs

Status: Alpha. No documentation. Incomplete. Missing features.

Differences from emacs

• clojure instead of elisp
• “everything is data” instead of “everything is text”
• modern graphics

Videos

• Overview
• 7gui demo
• Instarepl demo
• Easel Turns One!

Goals

• IDE as a library
• Integrate anything: web, 2d graphics, 3d graphics, video, plots, widgets, games, terminal, data inspectors, debuggers, etc
• Make tools available à la carte
• Small, composable widgets
• Drag and drop UI editor
• First class support for repl driven development

Non-goals

• Backwards compatibility with emacs
• Use web technologies for UI
• Run inside a web browser

Resources

Slack

• #easel on Clojurians Slack (invite here)

“Roadmap”

• Pure clojure code/text editor (see clobber)
• Polish: bug fixes, stability improvements, creature comforts
• Data viewer improvements (ie. improve viscous)
• Git integration
• Diff viewers
• Improve Tap viewer
• Logging View
• Exception stacktrace viewer
• Flowstorm integration
• Improved Pane management

License

Easel is licensed under Apache License v2.0.