Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]

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Post by tosh » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 12:57 PM UTC

Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]
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Post by tosh » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 12:58 PM UTC

via tonsky: https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1057317735766593536

  - Migrate as you go
  - 1/10th the code that does 10× as much
  - Life with existing Java codebase is better with Clojure macros 
  - Eliminate boilerplate with custom DSLs
  - REPL to live servers

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Post by nerdponx » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:06 PM UTC

What happened to Clojure? Was it just a fad, or are people still using it in their day jobs? Are people still hiring Clojure devs? If you write Clojure at work, are you happy with it?

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Post by rb808 » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:12 PM UTC

Is Clojure still a thing? It seems to have fallen off my radar. Java seems resurgent after 8, even Scala seems to have lost momentum.

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Post by 666lumberjack » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:12 PM UTC

Interesting stuff. I'd be curious to know how Netflix are getting on with it now.

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Post by codetrotter » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:13 PM UTC

Would be interested to hear their experiences with Clojure at Netflix for the 5 years that have followed since then.

Did they keep writing more Clojure? If so, how much of their code is now in Clojure compared to Java? How much more did they rewrite from Java to Clojure? Do they use Clojure rather than Java for new code?

What other languages do they use? Python? Erlang? Rust? How much, in terms of functionality, is written in each language they use? How many lines of code do they have in each language? To what extent did they find existing libraries for the different languages usable for what they are doing?

Among the things that seemed great with Clojure in 2013, did they find that some of these were not so great after all once the codebase grew? Any other problems?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:15 PM UTC

rb808 wrote: post #4

Is Clojure still a thing? It seems to have fallen off my radar. Java seems resurgent after 8, even Scala seems to have lost momentum.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:18 PM UTC

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Post by jcadam » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:20 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #3

What happened to Clojure? Was it just a fad, or are people still using it in their day jobs? Are people still hiring Clojure devs? If you write Clojure at work, are you happy with it?

Not a fad. Clojure 1.9 was just released. I can only use it on personal projects, as employers hiring for Clojure are few and far between.

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Post by dgritsko » Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 1:20 PM UTC

nerdponx wrote: post #3

What happened to Clojure? Was it just a fad, or are people still using it in their day jobs? Are people still hiring Clojure devs? If you write Clojure at work, are you happy with it?

Barely hanging onto the top 50 at #49 according to the TIOBE index (Java is still #1). Make of that what you will. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/