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authorBozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>2018-06-21 18:04:09 +0300
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## Isn't IntelliJ's Cursive the best Clojure IDE?
-Cursive is pretty awesome. Depending on your programming preferences (using an IDE vs
+Cursive is pretty awesome! Depending on your programming preferences (using an IDE vs
building a custom editing experience tailored to your needs) it might be a better
option for you than CIDER.
@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ option for you than CIDER.
The codenames are usually some of the favourite places of CIDER's head
maintainer (Bozhidar).
+!!! Tip
+
+ Bozhidar really loves Spain and the West Coast of the US, so he tends
+ to name really special releases with codenames related to them (e.g.
+ Seattle, California, Andalicia, etc).
+
## Is using CIDER a good idea if I'm new to both Emacs and Clojure?
There's nothing particularly complex in CIDER itself, but getting to
@@ -78,10 +84,21 @@ when the most important refactoring functionality from our sibling
project [clj-refactor](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/clj-refactor.el) lands
into CIDER.
+!!! Note
+
+ While there's no exact roadmap for the 1.0 release, we do have *a*
+ [roadmap](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/blob/master/ROADMAP.md).
+
## Is it true that stable CIDER releases often happen around major Clojure conferences?
Yep. We want to give people a reason to talk about CIDER at such events. :-)
+!!! Tip
+
+ Inviting Bozhidar or any other core CIDER developers to present at Clojure
+ conferences is likely going to results in more CIDER releases,
+ so you should totally do this!
+
## How unstable is the MELPA build of CIDER?
It's pretty stable. Serious regression are introduced rather rarely and are
@@ -100,6 +117,11 @@ for the socket REPL.
That's extremely unlikely. Even if we eventually add support for the new socket REPL,
we'll continue supporting nREPL as well.
+!!! Note
+
+ Recently nREPL was migrated out of `clojure-contrib` and its development
+ has once again picked up. Check out nREPL's new home [here](https://github.com/nrepl/nREPL).
+
## Is CIDER's nREPL middleware Emacs specific?
Not at all. The functionality in `cider-nrepl` is pretty editor-agnostic and is