3 ms·
The only two companies that I know that offered on site Clojure jobs no longer accept new projects being written in it. I stopped using Clojure after v1.2. I r
by TurboHaskal 6y ago
The only two companies that I know that offered on site Clojure jobs no longer accept new projects being written in it.
I stopped using Clojure after v1.2. I really love the language semantics: idiomatic Clojure is such a joy to read, but ultimately got tired of the lacklustre performance and the dogmatic, cult-like community.
I also no longer care about functional programming at this point in my career. Looking back, I think FP was not a way to write better code but an excuse for me to feel smug or superior to other programmers. I'm glad I grew over this.
- nextos 6y agoMaybe Racket is a good alternative? It's multi-paradigm, unlike Clojure. The community is very nice.
- TurboHaskal 6y agoI ended up with a proprietary CL implementation but yeah, I did my fair share of Racket and found it to be pretty cool.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> I also no longer care about functional programming at this point in my career. Looking back, I think FP was not a way to write better code but an excuse for me to feel smug or superior to other programmers. Every major paradigm (procedural, functional, OO, logic, relational) applied properly, is a way to write better code. If you approach it as a way to feel smug and superior, that's about you, not the paradigm.
- TurboHaskal 6y agoThat's... exactly what I said?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> That's... exactly what I said? It's compatible with what you said, but then so is “FP doesn't help write better software and is just an excuse for programmers to feel smug and superior to others in th field .”