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Clojure still sounds like research group to me.

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• Kototama 6y ago
  Tell that to Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Cognitect and all enterprises that produce reliable and performant software with it everyday.
  • randmeerkat 6y ago
    I don’t know of anyone at those companies using clojure and I haven’t seen any tech blogposts by those companies about using clojure. If clojure exists at those companies I imagine it’s a small very niche team.
    • yawaramin 6y ago
      And Walmart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728502 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728502
    • joshlemer 6y ago
      One very public example of a Clojure shop through and through is NuBank out of Brazil, who employs some 700 "Clojure developers" according to them. In fact they are so committed to Clojure they bought Cognitect last year.
      • Kototama 6y ago
        Don't bother, I have the feeling randmeerkat will argue that if the team is so big, the language must be not expressive!
        • randmeerkat 6y ago
          I have no gripe with Clojure, I take issue with someone claiming that Amazon, Apple, and Netflix have systems that operate at scale because of it. Clojure is a fine niche language, but it’s not the secret sauce to big tech web scale.
          • randompwd 6y ago
            Exactly. Comment from 11 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22526189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22526189 > The only project at Amazon that uses Clojure is one legacy project in maintenance mode.
          • Kototama 6y ago
            I was not claiming that, just that also big companies use it. It may not be used for the core of the business but I'm convinced the services that are build with Clojure are reliable, because the language is solid.
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