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no amount of ide smartness or agentic shenanigans is going to replace the feeling of having development process in sync with your thought process
Slightly off topic, but I find it to be a testament of how software has already eaten the world when friggin Michelin has a tech blog. What's next? General Electric releasing a frontend framework?
It's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure. I write Clojure fpr my day job and wouldn't want to swap it for anything. The community is small but very helpfull and easy reachable. The learning curve is steap indeed, but very much worth it!
- syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it
- convention for short var names makes it even harder
- function definition order makes it even harder
- too dynamic for most people's taste
- no type safety
- the opposite of boring
- no clear use case to show it clearly beating other languages
- niche with small community and job market
- JVM
For all those reasons its a hard sell for most imo.
Slightly off topic, but I find it to be a testament of how software has already eaten the world when friggin Michelin has a tech blog. What's next? General Electric releasing a frontend framework?
Funny example since they’re known for automotive parts and their food guide. It’s almost on brand.
It's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure. I write Clojure fpr my day job and wouldn't want to swap it for anything. The community is small but very helpfull and easy reachable. The learning curve is steap indeed, but very much worth it!
Clojure has some pretty big downsides last i looked: - syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it - convention for short var names makes it even harder - function definition order makes it even harder - too dynamic for most people's taste - no type safety - the opposite of boring - no clear use case to show it clearly beating other languages - niche with small community and job market - JVM…
every time i go back to writing non-clojure code outside of repl-driven environment i feel like a cave man banging rocks against each other no amount of ide smartness or agentic shenanigans is going to replace the feeling of having development process in sync with your thought process
Slightly off topic, but I find it to be a testament of how software has already eaten the world when friggin Michelin has a tech blog. What's next? General Electric releasing a frontend framework?
Slightly off topic, but I find it to be a testament of how software has already eaten the world when friggin Michelin has a tech blog. What's next? General Electric releasing a frontend framework?
or toyota releasing a game engine: https://www.theverge.com/games/875995/toyota-fluorite-game-e...
It's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure. I write Clojure fpr my day job and wouldn't want to swap it for anything. The community is small but very helpfull and easy reachable. The learning curve is steap indeed, but very much worth it!
Clojure has some pretty big downsides last i looked: - syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it - convention for short var names makes it even harder - function definition order makes it even harder - too dynamic for most people's taste - no type safety - the opposite of boring - no clear use case to show it clearly beating other languages - niche with small community and job market - JVM…