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I switched to clojure for a new job from doing scala for 5 years. I just feel a weight has been lifted off of my head. Weight of syntax, slow compilation, weight of implicits ( some of them are so bad even editors like idea couldn't figure out what is going on). And most importantly the weight of the constant feeling of not being able to fully understand the meaning of endless math terms thrown at me casually like mo…
I switched to clojure for a new job from doing scala for 5 years. I just feel a weight has been lifted off of my head. Weight of syntax, slow compilation, weight of implicits ( some of them are so bad even editors like idea couldn't figure out what is going on). And most importantly the weight of the constant feeling of not being able to fully understand the meaning of endless math terms thrown at me casually like mo…
Does clojure interface well with Java libs?
When I gave up on Scala in 2016, I did so because its future looked fragmented and uncertain. Fast forward more than three years, and the first release of Scala 3 won’t be out until another year from now. Compare this with the pace of development of Go or Rust: those languages are driven by a vision, and have a dedicated team behind them. Scala is declining because no one could figure out for the longest time what wa…
What about kotlin?
When I gave up on Scala in 2016, I did so because its future looked fragmented and uncertain. Fast forward more than three years, and the first release of Scala 3 won’t be out until another year from now. Compare this with the pace of development of Go or Rust: those languages are driven by a vision, and have a dedicated team behind them. Scala is declining because no one could figure out for the longest time what wa…
I don't know about pace, but in absolute terms, Go is far behind even the oldest versions of Scala.
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Yes. Very well. https://www.clojure.org/reference/java_interop
Interested but how much as good as with kotlin? Being compatible is one thing, being as idiomatic is another.
(ns dev.scratch.time-ex
(:import
(java.time Duration)
(java.util Date)))
(let [from (Date.)
until (-> from (.toInstant) (.plus (Duration/ofHours 12)) (Date/from))]
[from until])
I find very little friction in using Java directly from Clojure code. I can't speak to comparisons with Kotlin as I have no experience using it.
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Yes. Very well. https://www.clojure.org/reference/java_interop
Interested but how much as good as with kotlin? Being compatible is one thing, being as idiomatic is another.
yea kotlin prbly is a better choice if you mainly want to use java's libraries and write idiomatic java.
Clojure is not 'better java' like kotlin, its a completely different paradigm.
When I gave up on Scala in 2016, I did so because its future looked fragmented and uncertain. Fast forward more than three years, and the first release of Scala 3 won’t be out until another year from now. Compare this with the pace of development of Go or Rust: those languages are driven by a vision, and have a dedicated team behind them. Scala is declining because no one could figure out for the longest time what wa…
Go is just barely statically typed though, with its lack of generics. Some day soon, it will tacked onto the language; a language that wasn't designed with that in mind. I don't know about pace, but in absolute terms, Go is far behind even the oldest versions of Scala.
When I gave up on Scala in 2016, I did so because its future looked fragmented and uncertain. Fast forward more than three years, and the first release of Scala 3 won’t be out until another year from now. Compare this with the pace of development of Go or Rust: those languages are driven by a vision, and have a dedicated team behind them. Scala is declining because no one could figure out for the longest time what wa…
> Scala is declining And the proof of this is... Where?
I switched to clojure for a new job from doing scala for 5 years. I just feel a weight has been lifted off of my head. Weight of syntax, slow compilation, weight of implicits ( some of them are so bad even editors like idea couldn't figure out what is going on). And most importantly the weight of the constant feeling of not being able to fully understand the meaning of endless math terms thrown at me casually like mo…
Although I still think that it is a lot of fun to write clojure, it's a breeze with its focus on stateless, functional code.
I tried to get into writing a GraphQL API in scala once, and the library made excessive use of the implicit parameters. That was too much for me, there was always something missing and it wasn't immediately apparent where things are taken from or why something doesn't work in one place but does in another.