Simple Made Easy (2011)

corysama wrote: post #4

Simple Made Easy is a great introduction to the Rich Hickey Fanclub [1] ;) Other recommendations for early viewing are "Hammock Driven Development", "The Value of Values" and "The Design of Datomic". [1] https://github.com/tallesl/Rich-Hickey-fanclub

Hickey may be a brilliant software architect, but I'm wondering how high he ranks as a business leader. How is his company Datomic doing? Also in the light of the new database service Cloud Spanner just launched by Google.

Re: Simple Made Easy (2011)

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Post by swah » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 4:54 PM UTC

At some point it felt like Clojure was the future, the new thing, so amazingly better - was that just a feeling of novelty? Or something went wrong with its use case?

Of course, these days its about Rust, Swift and LLVM, but it doesn't have those lispy properties we love...

Re: Simple Made Easy (2011)

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Post by afandian » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:01 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #7

At some point it felt like Clojure was the future, the new thing, so amazingly better - was that just a feeling of novelty? Or something went wrong with its use case? Of course, these days its about Rust, Swift and LLVM, but it doesn't have those lispy properties we love...

I've been using it for 3 years and as I get my teeth further into my current project, I am grateful for Clojure every day.

Re: Simple Made Easy (2011)

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Post by nailer » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #2

Needs a (2011) in the title. Still a very good session, though.

Done.

Re: Simple Made Easy (2011)

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Post by chousuke » Thu, Feb 16, 2017, 5:03 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #7

At some point it felt like Clojure was the future, the new thing, so amazingly better - was that just a feeling of novelty? Or something went wrong with its use case? Of course, these days its about Rust, Swift and LLVM, but it doesn't have those lispy properties we love...

I think Clojure is doing just fine. I've seen it used in "real-world" proprietary software (custom-made for a client by a third party). It's just usually packaged as a jar file, so no-one notices unless you look for certain tells.