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> For backend web development Rails is still miles ahead of any Clojure workflow. If by web development you mean building frontends to a relational database. I

• AlwaysBCoding 11y ago
  Hm, I guess that's a valid point. I normally think of web apps as a frontend to a database, but could see why that's not the only use case. If you don't have a database associated with the service, can't you just use AWS Lambda or something? Is it necessary to maintain an entire separate project for it?
• zubairq 11y ago
  I've also built a Rails like system in Clojure which has easy SQL backend support. I actually find Clojure much EASIER than Rails backend, so I definitely disagree: https://github.com/zubairq/AppShare https://github.com/zubairq/AppShare Rails is just such a different thing. Rails IS really is a framework optimised for the days of Page based web applications with small amounts of Ajax requests. Clojure is much more suitable to full web applications (SPAs)
• dkersten 11y ago
  If by web development you mean building frontends to a relational database. In my opinion, yada[1] will change this with its concept of resources (eg it already has File and Directory resources for serving static data, but it wouldn't take much to develop a CRUD/DB resource - in fact, I spoke with Malcolm Sparks (the yada dev) about this). I personally find the Clojure(Script) development experience, with figwheel, much better than my experience with both Flask and Django (never used Rails). [1] https://github.com/juxt/yada/ https://github.com/juxt/yada/