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> I recently wrote a good chunk of a RESTful SQL-backed application in Python in two days that took a team of 3 people in Clojure over 2 months to just get to t
by sheepmullet 11y ago
> I recently wrote a good chunk of a RESTful SQL-backed application in Python in two days that took a team of 3 people in Clojure over 2 months to just get to the basic level of library support one would expect from things like sqlalchemy and flask.
Nonsense. Java library interop is great. If you could write it in 2 days in Python then it wouldn't take more than a week in clojure. In the very worst case scenario you could simply write "Java in Clojure" and directly use Java libraries.
> Clojure isn't simple -- it's basically a step up from assembler in how little it provides.
It gives you full access to the JVM and its tens of thousands of man years worth of high quality libraries.
As for the language itself it has macros, first class functions, built in vectors and maps, structural editing, fantastic REPL support, and a top rate concurrency story to name a few features.