FW/1 for Clojure

[Sean Corfield]

Since I'm at Clojure/conj this week, the Clojure version of FW/1 has recently gotten some love.

The FW/1 project now supports Leiningen 2 (which won't affect anyone who isn't playing directly with the source).

A first cut of routes has been implemented. Undocumented. In source only (not yet on Clojars) so you'll have to do lein install yourself to try it out.

Subsystems will not be implemented in the Clojure version - I don't think that's necessary or appropriate - but otherwise I believe all the major features of the CFML version now have an equivalent in the Clojure version (some are necessarily different, often simpler). There are a number of minor features which are not yet on parity but that will come over the next few months.

I'm actively using the CFML version of FW/1 at World Singles these days which will ensure it continues to get love in the short term but Ill be honest that we're moving more and more toward Clojure on the back end. With FW/1 for Clojure reaching parity, it becomes reasonable for World Singles to start to use Clojure for front end work, at least in our REST APIs (which is where we're currently usig FW/1 in CFML). That means that, at some point in the future, I will be looking for a steward for the CFML version of FW/1. Given how stable it is, and how "simple" its driving principles are, I don't expect that to be much work (and I would hope that it would not open the gateway to featuritis). When the time comes, I'll reach out to the community here but I wanted to sow the seed so folks could start to think about what's involved...

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