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Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Separate question: are there any new startups out there writing code primarily in Clojure?

Yup, it's still the best tool for me. Especially for complex domains, as it does not allow you to over-abstract data structures.

Schemamap.io has a declarative SQL compiler and backend implemented in it, solving Postgres database syncing.

Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you never push the code to production, it’s a crazy gorse multiplier for the explore and adventure prototype phase of a project

"gorse multiplier" wins today's "best transcription error" award, IMO category: edit-distance-two

I was momentarily convinced that “crazy horse multiplier” must be an American idiom, and then realized that maybe the misspelled thing being multiplied is a force rather than a horse after all.

Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Separate question: are there any new startups out there writing code primarily in Clojure?

Yes, in fact there is also a good number of conferences, for instance in less than two days https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/ starts in Belgium for instance (meet me there ;-) ). We are writing a trading system for a small broker company in Clojure/ ClojureScript with a Datomic centered backend. The previous company some of us on the team worked at had the code-base also in Clojure/ ClojureScript.

How is the job market for juniors? Functional programming jobs seems to be anti-juniors when hiring.

Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Separate question: are there any new startups out there writing code primarily in Clojure?

There are quite a few! We do at Doccla (and we’re hiring :) (EU))

havent touched clojure in years, but i use FP daily, can i get an interview? :)

Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, in fact there is also a good number of conferences, for instance in less than two days https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/ starts in Belgium for instance (meet me there ;-) ). We are writing a trading system for a small broker company in Clojure/ ClojureScript with a Datomic centered backend. The previous company some of us on the team worked at had the code-base also in Clojure/ ClojureScript.

How is the job market for juniors? Functional programming jobs seems to be anti-juniors when hiring.

Hard to say, I was always contacted directly by the team/ had other role and later it turned out I can do a fair bit of programming too ;-)

Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, in fact there is also a good number of conferences, for instance in less than two days https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/ starts in Belgium for instance (meet me there ;-) ). We are writing a trading system for a small broker company in Clojure/ ClojureScript with a Datomic centered backend. The previous company some of us on the team worked at had the code-base also in Clojure/ ClojureScript.

How is the job market for juniors? Functional programming jobs seems to be anti-juniors when hiring.

Sadly Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Julia, OCaml, F# and Haskell jobs are quite scarce.

For example, right now, I can only see ~50 LinkedIn EU Clojure ads. A dozen more mention Clojure but it does not seem to be the main focus of the job.

Would love to be proven wrong, though. Perhaps these jobs are sometimes not advertised via LinkedIn.

Re: Datomic and Content Addressable Techniques

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Separate question: are there any new startups out there writing code primarily in Clojure?

Yes, in fact there is also a good number of conferences, for instance in less than two days https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/ starts in Belgium for instance (meet me there ;-) ). We are writing a trading system for a small broker company in Clojure/ ClojureScript with a Datomic centered backend. The previous company some of us on the team worked at had the code-base also in Clojure/ ClojureScript.

(I'm one of the founders of Latacora and reviewed the post.) If any of you are at Heart of Clojure, I'll be there both wearing my Latacora hat and my Clojurists Together hat :)
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