Clojure Atlas, a visualization of the Clojure language & standard library

FYI, my announcement post can be found @ <a href="http://cemerick.com/2011/05/03/clojure-atlas-now-available/" rel="nofollow">http://cemerick.com/2011/05/03/clojure-atlas-now-available/</a> (previous discussion related to my "preview" of the concept a few weeks ago is here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463249" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463249</a>)<p>If you scroll down to the "About" section of the site's main page, you'll be able to read a brief rant of mine about the shortcomings of the walls-of-text that pass for technical documentation, and are often the only learning resource available for programmers in all sorts of contexts. Clojure Atlas is my attempt at producing a more useful, more tractable medium for understanding programming languages and the libraries that go along with them.<p>Insofar as some of the HN crowd aims to find and build better ways of plying the trade of programming, I'm hoping this will pique your interest.<p>I'll be around for the rest of the afternoon, and would be happy to field questions and such. After that, feel free to reach out via any of the methods provided on <a href="http://clojureatlas.com" rel="nofollow">http://clojureatlas.com</a>.

The <i>idea</i> behind this is great. I love to get a fast, visual interface to the entire API.<p>One thing that annoyed me however was that things keep moving. If I search for a function, it pop ups immediately but doesn't settle down, which means I have to try to read moving text. Even more annoying, the popup sometimes moves offscreen.

Does anyone else get really irritated when they see social-sharing type link buttons nowadays? It just feels like a blatant attempt to exploit my social graph.<p>I think this is cool, but not cool enough for $25 and definitely not cool enough for me to trust you after you over-hyped it so much.<p>There was a time when you could actually use myspace to meet interesting (real) new people. Then all of a sudden the signal-to-noise ratio imploded and the service became worthless. The value of the social graph is increasingly being coopted as people figure out how to exploit it.

This. looks. awesome.<p>I spent last weekend getting destroyed by the Clojure learning process. There is a ton of documentation for different libraries and such, but there are precious few EXAMPLES.<p>I do have to say, though, that I'm skeptical Clojure hackers will pay for this. They'll want it for free. Probably.

That's really neat. I was able to explore and find some things I hadn't yet found. One thing I'd like is for it to show which ones I've visited. Another thing is to be able to explore common libraries outside of clojure-core and clojure-contrib.