Opa VS Cursive IDE

I remember Opa http://opalang.org/ tried something similar at the time when MongoDB was new and modern. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

We come across some web frameworks and technologies that we think will succeed, but they wither away as time passes by and don't succeed to the level we expected. Which web frameworks and or technologies did you come across that you thought would succeed but did not as per your expectations? For example, I thought that Opa Lang[0] and UrWeb[1] would succeed but did not, even though the ideas were sound. [0]... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I think the Opa language was doing JSX-like code in the frontend before JSX http://opalang.org/ Both Opa and JSX were created in 2011. Opa had other innovations as well, such having the same code base run on both client and server (like Next.js). Unfortunately it didn't get traction and was abandoned by the creators. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

REPL-friendly development setup. DX (dev experience) might not be the best in class, but it is definitely not bad. Whenever you want to change or add something to the codebase, you start a REPL session in an IDE (in my case, Cursive / IntelliJ Idea). You can run code snippets to print their results, change the codebase, and reload the application. In addition, you can selectively run needed tests. You do not need... - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago

It helps when one shells out a license for Cursive, https://cursive-ide.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

The go to is still Emacs with CIDER however, there are many who are using Visual Studio or Cursive [1] [1]: https://cursive-ide.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

It is my understanding that Cursive is implemented as a IJ plugin and that most of it is written in Clojure, so that should be a definitive yes. Source: over 1 year ago

A closer experience to the old Common Lisp commercial IDEs, when using cursive. https://cursive-ide.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago