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The benefits of using Clojurescript over JS/TS in 2021 are superficial and not worth it IMO. Typescript is great, has good tooling and plays nice with the JS ec
by Scarbutt 6y ago
The benefits of using Clojurescript over JS/TS in 2021 are superficial and not worth it IMO. Typescript is great, has good tooling and plays nice with the JS ecosystem. With Clojurescript you spent more time fighting integration with the JS ecosystem than getting any real work done. The mismatch between JS objects and Clojurescript data structures is annoying and tedious and riddle with performance issues, and Clojurescript in general has many performance issues.
- brokenkebab 6y agoChoice of abstractions which suit your thinking is obviously subjective so some people naturally prefer TS or Scala.js or PureScript over Clojurescript, (or whatever else over Clojurescript). However, the statement "you spent more time fighting integration with the JS ecosystem" is evidently not true. In my own experience you can do almost everything never leaving CJS realm, and when you need to combine it with existing JS code it will require some deeper understanding, but nevertheless goes pretty easy. Didn't downvote you btw
- raspasov 6y agoI usually avoid a direct ad-hominem attack but here I think I have to. Most things this person says in every thread about Clojure are false.
- lukashrb 6y agoCould you give us more details about the problems you running in?