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What do you mean by "falling apart"? Clojure is the most stable and robust language I've ever used, and I've been using it in production for 15 years now.

Clojure 1.9: Spec. Clojure 1.10: datafy/nav + tap> which has spawned a whole new set of tooling for exploring data. Clojure 1.11: portable math (clojure.math, which also works on C…

Think of Civitas as a "static site generator" that uses the GH pages for the project as the public hosting for all the content -- a centralized, Clojure-specific blog if you like.

Absolutely this, yes! If you post a JS position, you will get 1,000 or more applicants, so it is a huge amount of work behind the scenes to filter this down to try to find the vagu…

A lot of companies seem to want to hire folks who "think like me". IMO, that's a mistake: you need diversity of thought to provide new insights into problems. If you all think the …

I'm surprised this seemed to be voted down. I've been a hiring manager for over 30 years, and I never do "technical tests" -- no take-home, no live coding, none of it. I have a map…

I guess it depends what the tech stack was before? Where I work, we were previously a ColdFusion shop when I joined, and after a false start with Scala, I introduced Clojure and it…

My bad... the sixth time (the fifth time was under a different title).

The fifth time this has been posted in just over a week... it must be a REALLY good article! :)

Jeez, these FreshCodeIT guys are really spamming us lately...

There have been several comments from the core team folks that a vthread variant of core.async is being considered. It would be a different library and may be somewhat API-compatib…

Babashka is a self-contained executable that can run with no dependencies. I was not commenting on the appropriateness of introducing a scripting language for devops work. I was re…

There's babashka for scripting without the JVM, which I think quite a few Clojurians use for devops-style work.

What exactly is the question here?

I sympathize to a degree. I've worked in startups, and I've worked in Large Corps, but size alone isn't necessarily correlated with "fun" and startups aren't always good environmen…

Annual Leave, probably.

There's a lot of cool Java interop stuff coming in Clojure 1.12 that might help here (Alpha 6 should drop "soon").

I've been doing Java since '97 and have gone through dozens of IDEs and editors over the years -- and never used IntelliJ (because I don't like it).

As the current maintainer of clojure-doc.org, I'd be happy to hear your feedback on what needs additional explanation/clarification. This year's funding by Clojurists Together allo…

Seven years ago you would have been using Clojure 1.8 or earlier I expect? A LOT has happened with the language and the tooling since then! Clojure 1.9 gave us Spec "for describing…

This has been posted repeatedly before: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

> At least in the official docs, things should be cleaned up and made much more user friendly. The source of clojure.org is at https://github.com/clojure/clojure-site/ and it gets …

This has already been posted several times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505733 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486486 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

This has already been posted several times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505733 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486486 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

Improving your skills is always relevant. I think The Pragmatic Programmer's advice to learn a new programming language every year is aspirational but still good -- I've tried to l…