[BLOG] Understanding Meyvn

[Daniel Szmulewicz]

I hope you'll enjoy reading my latest blog post on Meyvn, if only for the historical tidbits around Clojure tooling.

"When we we say that Clojure is hosted on the JVM, we often forget the corollary, that Clojure tooling is built on Maven. We'd be forgiven for the oversight: the tooling is good at keeping Maven out of sight. But Maven is everywhere: in Clojars as the repository format, in Boot where Pomegranate is used as the interface for the Maven resolver, in tools.deps which harnesses the Maven resolver directly... Meyvn takes the ubiquity of Maven to its logical conclusion, delegating all tasks to Maven's execution engine."

Oh, and did you ever wonder where Leiningen gets its name from? Read on.

[Mark Derricutt]

I spy a shout out :-) Cheers.

clojure-maven-plugin is still seeing use (and not only by us at $work), and every so often gets PRs against it but has been largely unchanged for some time. I keep thinking about updating it and removing some of the goals that got added over time (how many variations of repl launching goals does one plugin need built in? ;p )

Great read!

[daniel szmulewicz]

Thanks! 

Totally a shout out. It has been a remarkably stable project. And the repl goals are cool, too. I've been leveraging their flexibility in Meyvn.

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I came across "Leiningen vs. the Ants" in a collection of short stories I have. Highly recommended!

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[daniel szmulewicz]

Leiningen versus the Ants tells the story of a settler determined to fight an oncoming invasion of soldier ants when all the odds are stacked against him. The short story regularly features in anthologies alongside Jack London's survival stories. It conveys the notion that nothing can stop a colonial master if he is of strong enough character, not even the calamities of nature. In the classroom, the reading assignment often serves as preamble to discuss man versus nature, narrative structure and characterization. The colonial ideology that underpins it? Not so much.

It is not easy for the average person to imagine that an animal, not to mention an insect, can think. But now both the European brain of Leiningen and the primitive brains of the Indians began to stir with the unpleasant foreboding that inside every single one of that deluge of insects dwelt a thought. And that thought was: Ditch or no ditch, we'll get to your flesh!

Critical situations first become crises, he explained to his men, when oxen or women get excited.

Apologists will demand examination of the text in the context of its time, its society. Undoubtedly, those were times of euro-centrism, misogyny and self-professed superiority. But those were also times of dissenting, progressive voices demanding change, equality, a better world. Those voices need to be anthologized and discussed in the classroom, too. The empires may have been undone, but their ideology lingers on, oftentimes implicit and rampant. 

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[Daniel Slutsky]

Oh. I had no idea what this story was about.

Thanks for shedding some light on that.