How the heck is it "terser"? The /example/ on that page is 23 lines/555 chars to produce javascript that is 17 lines/444 chars.<p>If you're going to boast about "terseness" as a selling point, you should at least ensure your examples actually demonstrate that to be at all true.
Prediction: it will die it's natural death in 6 months.<p>"Terser" should not be a programming language selling point. "Expressive" yes.
Language author here. I feel pretty stupid for what I wrote in the documentation. Commenters here are entirely right to bash it for claims of terseness on the syntax level because that's not an advantage, just a questionable tradeoff.<p>I'm doing a complete rewrite with 0.4, overhauling the compiler's architecture (the current version is fairly embarrassing) and dropping some dead-end ideas and Ruby influences. Mostly done, but moving slowly. If anyone's interested, you're welcome to PRs. :)
Really? I would definitely expect this to be an equality test instead.<p><pre><code> ; assignment (name binding)
(= myVar 'myValue')</code></pre>
Personally, I find <a href="https://github.com/Gozala/wisp" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Gozala/wisp</a> to be a whole lot more coherent and readable (and probably more mature, too, even though it has much less documentation).<p>wisp also generates very nice JS code (and source maps), and my only real problem with it is that it lacks the time and resources ClojureScript clearly commands at this point.<p>(edited to add: wisp also has a fair amount of activity: <a href="https://gitter.im/Gozala/wisp" rel="nofollow">https://gitter.im/Gozala/wisp</a>)
Apologize if this is a dumb question but is the point here to make a language that's somewhat analogous to a stenographer typewriter or a Dvorak keyboard or something? In other words, you can write out new code in Jisp, then hit the compile button and it compiles to JS and you paste that into Sublime Text and you have thereby saved time?
You can do the same thing with Java using Google Web Toolkit: <a href="http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.gwtproject.org/overview.html</a><p>It lets you write both server & client code in java, and then the client code is compiled to highly optimized javascript.