> Our mission is to take this code and make it readable
You failed. Between the unreadable text colors and the word wrap, the code is incomprehensible. I cut and pasted it into a plaintext notes app and it was way easier to understand
gleenn · 1h ago
In general, it's a dream to test and refactor Clojure IMHO. Working with mostly static top-level functions, immutability by default, and mocking when necessary with the use of "with-redefs" makes writing tests easy. Also, the immutability makes it hard to break shared copies of memory which seemed to plague my earlier tangos with large Java code bases and standard OOP practices.
sammy0910 · 1h ago
most people I know eschew the use of with-redefs for testing because it's hard to verify that the testing environment is configured correctly as the codebase changes (but otherwise I second the points about immutability by default, and static/pure functions!)
NightMKoder · 19m ago
Usually the controversial decision for Clojure code highlighting is rainbow parens. This color scheme is horrific and unreadable (on mobile at least).
aeonik · 4m ago
I don't like the color scheme, and in some of the snippets I don't understand the correlation, but some of them, I think the structural highlighting is very nice.
IceDane · 1h ago
It's kind of funny that this article starts by showing a completely unreadable code snippet, but not because of the code, but because of the syntax highlighting scheme. There is no version of that code, or any code for that matter, that is readable using that color scheme.
You failed. Between the unreadable text colors and the word wrap, the code is incomprehensible. I cut and pasted it into a plaintext notes app and it was way easier to understand