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> To build it outside of clojure ecosystem, you would need to first build all the pieces of the clojure ecosystem That's simply untrue, and even the author's c

• erichmond 10y ago
  What do you think the time delta would be between building it in JS vs Clojure would be? Just curious.
  • Dr_tldr 10y ago
    It really depends on so many different factors. The javascript ecosystem is at least 100x the size of clojure's, but as a consequence, the average quality of what's available is much lower. If the pre-existing libraries and services will work for your use case, javascript is going to be faster, simply because most of the code you need has already been written. Another important consideration is your familiarity with both. If you have a deep knowledge of javascript and its ecosystem, many of the architectural wins you get from clojure out of the box are fairly trivial to port over. I suspect the reverse is not as true, because a clojure expert dipping their toes into javascript doesn't have as clear a picture of what the limitations are and how to overcome them. As we can already see in this thread, there's a tendency for people who use clojure to believe that some architectural concepts are literally impossible for all other languages, rather than merely less common or requiring some pre-configuration.