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> You will never code lisp in your job. Promised. I believed this too, but then Clojure happened. It's not my ideal Lisp, but I can get paid to write it at a m
by User23 7y ago
> You will never code lisp in your job. Promised.
I believed this too, but then Clojure happened. It's not my ideal Lisp, but I can get paid to write it at a mainstream company.
- microcolonel 7y agoDitto, Clojure gets work done, and there are hardly any Fortune 100 companies left without someone using it on the job. It's become part of my job.
- uoaei 7y agoWhat is Clojure's wheelhouse -- what is it used for?
- chimpburger 7y agoAnything that Java is used for
- jm547ster 7y agoAll sorts, but I believe it was born out of frustration at unnecessary complexity arising from standard enterprise development. Hickey’s choice of hosting it on the JVM was ingenious, gives access to one of the largest most battle tested ecosystems in modern day enterprise engineering. It’s much more versatile these days with the likes of ClojureScript, it’s being used in anything from real-time multimedia projects to SPA JavaScript work.
- microcolonel 7y agoBasically anything other than operating systems. I've been working on an optimizing compiler for spreadsheets, and an event sourcing system with a WebSocket gateway in my current work.
- zerr 7y agoAccording to TIOBE index, Clojure is not a thing outside HN bubble, is it?
- narnianal 7y agoGreat to read that. I also know one other person who writes Clojure professionally. Gives clojure to some of who hoped for people to get this opportunity at some point. There are also rock stars, but that doesn't mean we should give advise that anyone could become a rock star. Those who will become rock stars will become it anyway even if you tell them they won't.