To begin with, I’m a very happy Clojurian, but not when I’m working with interops. I’m using Google apis extensively for some features in my product; and so far the experience has been quite awful. I’ve been contemplating it for a while and here are my pain points.
- It is hard to look up for what method a java object supports.
- It is hard to understand the inheritance and polymorphism designs without actually looking at the java codes.
- 1,2 are amplified all the more because I’m using calva with vscode. The IDE’s java support is not as good as that of intellij.
How do you work with interops in general? I welcome any tips/advices/know-hows.
Honestly, I have found that extending objects is just easier in Java. The clojure interface for that is generally not worth the effort.