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Every time Clojure comes up on HN there always seems to be a lot of negativity. Frankly I'm just sick of hearing "Why you should use Clojure" over and over aga
by causality0 6y ago
Every time Clojure comes up on HN there always seems to be a lot of negativity.
Frankly I'm just sick of hearing "Why you should use Clojure" over and over again. Posts about other languages center on some problem that language solved for them, or some problem they have with it. Clojure posts are always cold-call cheerleading about how good it is in a general sense. Tell me something cool you did with it. Tell me how it saved you a mind-blowing amount of work. I'm not interested in hearing for the Nth time how someone think it's an overall excellent choice.
- tincholio 6y agoAt my previous job, I implemented a stream processing solution in Clojure, which superseded a Java one which never had quite worked (it was a pretty bad codebase, in fairness), added more complex functionality, and allowed me to drop 1/3rd of the code in that module (from 18KSLOC to 6KSLOC). More importantly, it worked as intended, and only a couple of negligible bugs made it to production, which for the complexity of the system, and the scarcity of QA we had, was surprisingly good, tbh.