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Idk ... it feels Clojure stalled since Nubank bought Hickeys company. Worst thing: spec is still in alpha !! I put so much on this ... but nothing really happened since ... idk 8 years?
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While amusing, I still disagree. Complex static type syntax ends up infecting your code, because the syntax becomes load-bearing. A change to one type has a tendency to ripple through the entire body of code. This means you have tight coupling as a consequence of the syntax, which is a bad trade-off. Clojure's strong dynamic abstract types allow you to focus on the function of the code instead of its structure. Tryin…
> There are studies that estimate that the kind of bugs shipped to production that strong static types help prevent account for only 2% of defects. The rest are things like off-by-one errors, design errors, and incorrect logic. If you've got a reference, I'd be interested. (Not saying you're wrong...) > The other thing a static type system can help you with is reading code. But it's primarily an aid to people unfamil…
I run a multi-million dollar business which I started with common lisp. I since moved away to go and then rust but I've been looking at clojure again lately. For a team that needs to get s** done and has more per employee productivity than Faang combined it's hard to beat the speed with which you can build things when you have the repl and interactive programming. The jvm while doesn't have great error messages is a…
You should give Gleam a shot. No REPL, but its simplicity, functional-ity and the BEAM lend themselves to the get-shit-done approach
I run a multi-million dollar business which I started with common lisp. I since moved away to go and then rust but I've been looking at clojure again lately. For a team that needs to get s** done and has more per employee productivity than Faang combined it's hard to beat the speed with which you can build things when you have the repl and interactive programming. The jvm while doesn't have great error messages is a…
You should give Gleam a shot. No REPL, but its simplicity, functional-ity and the BEAM lend themselves to the get-shit-done approach
I run a multi-million dollar business which I started with common lisp. I since moved away to go and then rust but I've been looking at clojure again lately. For a team that needs to get s** done and has more per employee productivity than Faang combined it's hard to beat the speed with which you can build things when you have the repl and interactive programming. The jvm while doesn't have great error messages is a…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
While amusing, I still disagree. Complex static type syntax ends up infecting your code, because the syntax becomes load-bearing. A change to one type has a tendency to ripple through the entire body of code. This means you have tight coupling as a consequence of the syntax, which is a bad trade-off. Clojure's strong dynamic abstract types allow you to focus on the function of the code instead of its structure. Tryin…
> There are studies that estimate that the kind of bugs shipped to production that strong static types help prevent account for only 2% of defects. The rest are things like off-by-one errors, design errors, and incorrect logic. If you've got a reference, I'd be interested. (Not saying you're wrong...) > The other thing a static type system can help you with is reading code. But it's primarily an aid to people unfamil…
[1]: A Large-scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in GitHub https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3126905
[2]: On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality: A Reproduction Study https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3340571
We bootstrapped for 5 years to well over $1M+ ARR before recently closing a seed round[1], Clojure played a large part in our ability to deliver as a small team. Also in our general happiness as programmers, it is a nice language to work in.
We will grow our Clojure core product team over the next couple of years, but mostly the funding round is about balancing our business to keep up with our product delivery.
Clojure has been very good to me (I had 15 years on the JVM prior to moving to clj/cljs in 2013-ish). YMMV.
[1] https://factorhouse.io/blog/articles/from-bootstrap-to-black...
I run a multi-million dollar business which I started with common lisp. I since moved away to go and then rust but I've been looking at clojure again lately. For a team that needs to get s** done and has more per employee productivity than Faang combined it's hard to beat the speed with which you can build things when you have the repl and interactive programming. The jvm while doesn't have great error messages is a…
The part about the "stability" is a bit surprising - in my experience, I try playing with clojure about once a year, and every time, everything is different (I mean, I had to go through classpathes, then lein, then boot, then deps.edn - what is the current way to "try and run a program" du jour ?) Also, is running your "hello world" still going to be incredibly slow, or has something changed in the core system (I kno…
[0] Not sure what the correct term is here, but I mean the official default one; I know there are other implementations, and my vague recollection is that there's at least one other one that's either sponsored or maybe even fully developed by Oracle, and that the OpenJDK version is the "canonical" non-enterprise one now anyhow, so saying " first party" feels like it might add more ambiguity than it would resolve
Elixir is a little less flexible since it doesn’t have the JVM interop but for domains where it’s a good fit I think it’s even better at most of this stuff (and easier to teach people unfamiliar with FP or lisps)