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179points
21comments
#227of 2,195 in 2019
Top 11%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.

Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful way to learn Clojure and GraphQL

    From 3 comments
    • Been looking for a fun way to learn Clojure. Thanks!
      masterjefferson on HN
    • I've been looking for a motivated tutorial to learn Clojure beyond the syntax and similar basics, thanks for sharing!
      thanatropism on HN
    • Interesting. I have wanted to get into GraphQL. As Clojure person I liked the idea but we had some similar stuff already. I will defiantly look at that code later.
      nickik on HN

Objections

  • Code is large and verbose

    From 2 comments
    • thats a lot of code
      lucaspottersky on HN
    • Nice job! On the whole the howtographql series is instructive but results in a ton of boilerplate code. The GraphQL framework[1] from the Manifold project avoids all of that with…
      mckinney on HN
  • Lisp syntax is hard to read

    From 1 comment
    • Not very exposed to Lisp style languages. So take this as you will. But the actual clojure code looks weird? I get that its a different way of writing from the C like syntax,…
      boarnoah on HN

Questions

  • How the old simplenews project was built

    From 1 comment
    • Neat, could you provide some annotations or a readme? I'm curious to see how you made this. Only if you have some extra time laying around of course
      sova on HN

Alternatives named

  • Lacinia tutorial

    From 1 comment
    • Cool! I'm currently working through the lacinia tutorial to learn GraphQL (I've invested a lot of time in getting good at designing RESTful APIs, so GraphQL definitely feels…
      jcadam on HN
  • Manifold GraphQL framework

    From 1 comment
    • Nice job! On the whole the howtographql series is instructive but results in a ton of boilerplate code. The GraphQL framework[1] from the Manifold project avoids all of that with…
      mckinney on HN
  • Fulcro EQL / walkable

    From 1 comment
    • In Clojure we have walkable which can handle graphql and EQL, personally I found holes in the graphql type system that EQL wouldn't have had a problem with @see: Fulcro EQL…
      slifin on HN

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