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Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

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Re: Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

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That catchline makes a lot more sense when you consider that JUXT is the most prominent company specialising in Clojure aside from Nubank itself, and have their logo at the foot of pretty much any conference remotely touching on Clojure topics. Clojure has a fairly insular community that overlaps with other lisps more than it does something more popular such as Python or PHP, so the cliché (admittedly, one with some…

> stating our presumed superiority is almost a greeting at this stage! I think you're joking, but as another person in the Clojure community, please don't do this for real. The community already has issues with feeling "elite".

Rest assured, I don't lord it over others :) Plenty do though, and those are who I was poking fun at: those who ritually exchange platitudes extolling the virtues of Clojure, Datomic or even Rick Hickey before the start of every discussion.

Re: Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

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I feel bad for you. It must be tough living in such a black and white world :(

since you've resorted to grade school bullying, it's clear my point is beyond you, so I'll meet you at your level: calling something over engineering reduces the problem to black and white thinking, which is incredibly uninteresting. let's not do that! wow, I guess we agree, and you're still an asshole!

I never called it over engineered.

Re: Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

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> stating our presumed superiority is almost a greeting at this stage! I think you're joking, but as another person in the Clojure community, please don't do this for real. The community already has issues with feeling "elite".

Rest assured, I don't lord it over others :) Plenty do though, and those are who I was poking fun at: those who ritually exchange platitudes extolling the virtues of Clojure, Datomic or even Rick Hickey before the start of every discussion.

Two years at Cognitect put an end to that for me. Never meet your heroes.
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