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Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect

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Post by monsieurbanana »

clj_throwaway wrote: post #37
mr_custard wrote: post #28

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A lot of people don't seem to mind building on top of tech owned and developed by a telecommunications company - Erlang.

Yep, telecomms and banks, very similar dynamics and incentives /s

Yes? What incentive exactly are you implying banks have that make them less suitable than other mega-corporations for the purposes of developing a programming language?

Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect

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Post by niclo »

bhurlow wrote: post #54
Joe8Bit wrote: post #50

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Immutability is a very powerful idea when record keeping and dealing with transactions. I know of at least one major bank whose ledgers are written Haskell.

any relevant links to share about this?

It's Walmart and not a financial institution but this is a great talk about immutability applied to the backend services using F#: https://youtu.be/FskIb9SariI

Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect

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Post by randompwd »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #61
nojito wrote: post #9

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It says this in your post. Cognitect will continue to offer professional services for Datomic customers, but will transition out of general consulting development. Does this mean your general consulting services are going away?

I friend of mine hired the principles at Cognitect to kick off a Clojure/Datomic project. They were like a force of nature, really, and very quickly got things set up and helped with architectural decisions, etc. I would imagine that they have helped hundreds of customers this way. From the blog post, I think that the answer to your question is yes: they will stop general consulting services.

Here's hoping they release a getting started project now that they've dipped out of general consulting.There must have been a standard-ish template in use.

Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect

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Post by auganov »

> Nubank has grown to 600 Clojure developers, running 2.5 million lines of Clojure code in 500 microservices

Wow, that's enormous especially for a concise language like Clojure. Very happy about this announcement as a Clojure user. Sounds like it's going to be viable for at least another decade.

Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect

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Post by bhurlow »

I'm just remembering the sad collapse of RethinkDB...

The task of making a viable commercial database in 2020 is herculean and I can really empathize with the team's need to both keep cashflow and have a sufficiently sized deployment to debug against.

Can also say that everyone I've met at nubank are really passionate about the ecosystem and seem like they'll be excellent partners

Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect

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Post by randompwd »

jcadam wrote: post #52
puredanger wrote: post #40

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Clojure has many free IDEs. Many people currently use Emacs w/CIDER, Atom w/Chlorine, Visual Studio w/Calva, Vim w/Fireplace, etc. For that matter, Cursive also has a free non-commercial edition.

I've found CIDER superior to Cursive for Clojurescript, specifically. I use a combination of IntelliJ (with the emacs keybindings) and emacs depending on which language I'm working with. Most of my projects involve two or more languages, so I'll usually have both editors open all day :) As an aside, I'm starting to become a fan of Kotlin for backends (with some Clojure sprinkled in where it offers a big advantage), a…

Using Spring with Kotlin or other?
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