Please enable stub generation for Rama

[holyjak]

Hello!

Nathan Marz's Rama is a new fascinating platform with first-class Clojure API, but similarly to Datomic it is distributed without source code, and thus barely usable in Cursive (contrary to Cider and Calva). I suppose the solution is to enable Stub generation for its namespaces, i.e. I guess com.rpl.rama, com.rpl.rama.path, com.rpl.rama.aggs, com.rpl.rama.ops, com.rpl.rama.test (see the Rama Clojure Api docs)

Thank you! 🙏

[cursive-ide]

Just to let you know that I'm working on this, but it's trickier than I expected. Just enabling stubs is not enough, Cursive needs to know how to resolve the dataflow API which is quite unlike Clojure.

[holyjak]

Thank you! I imagine that could be pretty hard. IMO it does not need to be perfect, every improvement counts :-)

Also, perhaps the Rama people would be willing to help with this? BTW it has been mentioned they are going to release their clj-kondo config, perhaps that could be a good guide...

🙏

[cursive-ide]

Fix released in 1.13.1-eap9 on 2023-11-27.

[cursive-ide]

This is mostly fixed, but there are still some rough edges due to the fact that the dataflow DSL isn't really Clojure code. Some problems I'm aware of:

• Highlighting doesn't work correctly for :keys destructuring of Rama output variables.
• Highlighting is inconsistent for %% vars, which can lead to spurious unused variable markings.
• Highlighting doesn't currently work for $$ vars, for unknown reasons.
• $$ don't really have a scope in Rama, currently if they're used outside the form where they're defined they won't be resolved correctly.

I plan to fix more of these but I need to get this release out, I'm interested in feedback on how well this works in practice.

[holyjak]

Amazing! Thank you for the super quick improvement!

[cursive-ide]

Fix released in 1.13.1 on 2023-12-07.

[holyjak]

Hi @holyjak ! It is awesome, many thanks! Before, Cursive was almost unusable for Rama code. Now it works really well.

I have only noticed 2 tiny inconveniences:

• Some macros lack docstring, e.g. <<sources, source>
• Currently, Rama has Clojure 1.11.1 built-in but Cursive believes random-uuid doesn't exist (though it works fine in the repl)