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I really like both of these languages but don’t work in either and find that I struggle to manage these two totally different platforms for hobby work. Both com

by fhsm 6y ago

I really like both of these languages but don’t work in either and find that I struggle to manage these two totally different platforms for hobby work. Both communities have strong tooling norms such that I feel stuck either burning side project time getting up on tools or burning time fighting “the way” assumes by most online materials. Any tips on how to have just a little bit of Clojure/JVM and f#/CLR in your life when day-to-day is on neither platform?

slifin 6y ago
Babashka (https://github.com/borkdude/babashka https://github.com/borkdude/babashka) is the new gateway drug for Clojure Essentially you can use it in most places you'd currently use bash scripts the install footprint is small and the startup time is fast It's kind of like Clojure without the JVM, very easy to justify for one off bits and pieces
StreamBright 6y ago
Great question. Our entire company has moved to F#/CLR/.NET Core at the beginning of 2020 and we could not be happier. It started in 2019 as a hobby project, I just wanted to create a simple (not in par in terms of features) replacement for Google Analytics to track how users use our website and also create an ETL pipeline for it using AWS Lambda. This is how I got into it more in depth. The more I worked with it I started to like it even more. When the time came to select the stack for our next project we had Rust and F# as the two options and F# won because most devs were already familiar with C# and we did not like few things about Rust (especially the string handling) while we could not find any particular issue with F#. Now, 100.000 lines of code later, it was a pretty good decision. As far as Clojure goes, I usually use it for the JVM world, if I get a project and there are no other devs. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to convince Java devs to use Clojure and there are some limitations (Java interop for example) that makes it hard to sell. I am not even sure what would I do in your situation.

by fhsm 6y ago

slifin 6y ago

Babashka (https://github.com/borkdude/babashka https://github.com/borkdude/babashka) is the new gateway drug for Clojure Essentially you can use it in most places you'd currently use bash scripts the install footprint is small and the startup time is fast It's kind of like Clojure without the JVM, very easy to justify for one off bits and pieces

StreamBright 6y ago

Great question. Our entire company has moved to F#/CLR/.NET Core at the beginning of 2020 and we could not be happier. It started in 2019 as a hobby project, I just wanted to create a simple (not in par in terms of features) replacement for Google Analytics to track how users use our website and also create an ETL pipeline for it using AWS Lambda. This is how I got into it more in depth. The more I worked with it I started to like it even more. When the time came to select the stack for our next project we had Rust and F# as the two options and F# won because most devs were already familiar with C# and we did not like few things about Rust (especially the string handling) while we could not find any particular issue with F#. Now, 100.000 lines of code later, it was a pretty good decision. As far as Clojure goes, I usually use it for the JVM world, if I get a project and there are no other devs. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to convince Java devs to use Clojure and there are some limitations (Java interop for example) that makes it hard to sell. I am not even sure what would I do in your situation.