Live Programming a Live Programming Environment: An Experience Report
summary
Builds a browser report-builder prototype from Clojure and Clerk that composes a data-transformation pipeline, shows intermediate results and generates plots while mirroring the corresponding Clojure code. Works on automotive logistics CSV-like data and uses a tiny-DSL approach after early failure from an oversized DSL, hitting friction from JVM and browser runtimes and a reliance on console.log for debugging. Keeps systems live by starting from a concrete sample data structure and enforcing a 20-minute rule to favor tiny, inspectable changes.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:19Report builder demo
- 5:04Live Clojure with Clerk
- 10:05Maintaining liveness challenges
- 13:36Key takeaways
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