If you need to use Clojure, it’s what there is.

I feel compelled to leave this review, because I feel like the 4 and 5 star reviews are symptoms of the fact that Clojure has no modern IDE. There is LightTable, which is equally as annoying as NightCode, is much slower, but has better REPL integration. There are also a handful of cumbersome command line tools.

There, I said it: Clojure is cumbersome by nature, just like Java is, and it needs a good IDE to be efficient. It doesn’t have one. Nightcode is adequate, but it has so many annoying quirks. First of all, it is not accessible with mousing or menus, and it should be. It’s 2015. I have a mouse and a big screen. If Nightcode actually had any sort of manual, I might be less annoyed by it’s lack of a GUI, but there’s no manual I can find. So I’m sitting here not able to do simple Find-and-Replace features that every other IDE app — or even text editor — can do with ease.

A three star rating is my gift for the fact that it is the best of a group of horrible alternatives.

jpnorair about Nightcode