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With enough effort and stubbornness, you can build any system in any turing complete language. Whenever people point out massive projects done by Fortune 500s,
by dismantlethesun 10y ago
With enough effort and stubbornness, you can build any system in any turing complete language.
Whenever people point out massive projects done by Fortune 500s, I do recall this and think "yes, Boing can do that, they also used Ada before for the same thing", and "yes Google can mesh 5 different languages within the same company, 2 of them invented there". Does that mean my company can do that?
No. We'd burn our capital stake long before we get to the point of seeing returns versus taking the 'boring' well trodden route that everyone is already experienced in.
- cutler 10y agoI'd say more "effort and stubbornness" is required to get a Java/C# app out the door in decent time compared with Clojure. There was a study not long ago in which Clojure won hands down for least number of bugs and lines of code. I think Rich Hickey got a few things right so don't write-off Clojure too hastily. There's also Clojure Spec round the corner so you'll be able to have your types and eat it too. Win, win surely, no?