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whitecoop 2016-12-21T15:17:05.000005Z
Hello folks. Anyone here use Clojure with jMonkeyEngine? I saw weaverjester's gist with an example recently but wondered if there was much of a community. I have little experience with game dev, but I'm interested in what a functional approach has to offer there (and would like to learn more).
gdeer81 2016-12-21T16:19:15.000006Z
The Clojure user survey never asks about games, but if you go by google search results, it looks like jMonkeyEngine is not as popular as play-clj and other java wrappers. In my own experience the most active community is Arcadia which is a fork of ClojureCLR to work with Unity3D
gdeer81 2016-12-21T16:21:40.000007Z
if jMonkeyEngine is something you're interested in, it never hurts to pick up the torch.
whitecoop 2016-12-21T16:22:58.000008Z
Ah. Just yesterday I saw a blog post about Arcadia, but I didn't realize they were using ClojureCLR. Makes sense.
whitecoop 2016-12-21T16:23:24.000009Z
Hadn't heard of play-clj. Have to check that out
gdeer81 2016-12-21T16:25:18.000010Z
@sekao is the creator of that one, in fact his whole github profile is full of wonderful things https://github.com/oakes
gdeer81 2016-12-21T16:31:23.000013Z
as far as what functional programming has to offer game development there are a few talks and blogs on that but for me it was the hot code reloading, repl driven development and the time traveling
whitecoop 2016-12-21T16:48:19.000014Z
:thumbsup: