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This site should be called Hipster News. I feel like the more obscure a project is, the higher the chance you'll see it on HN. Meanwhile, the bread and butter o

This site should be called Hipster News. I feel like the more obscure a project is, the higher the chance you'll see it on HN. Meanwhile, the bread and butter of regular programmers (c#/php/java) gets barely any mention here (and when it does, it's for major lang releases and it's typically poopooed hard) and you basically see ZERO threads about the news from within these huge ecosystems.

brundolf 5y ago
Engineers are drawn to novel and exciting things; there's nothing wrong with that But it's also not been my experience that the typical atmosphere around C#/Java posts that show up here has been "poopoo"
ironmagma 5y ago
Clojure has a decent sized ecosystem by now. The language is almost 15 years old so there is a fair amount of tooling and protocol support.
outworlder 5y ago
There's nothing obscure about ClojureScript. Or React.
weatherlight 5y ago
Make something interesting? I dunno. React is pretty main stream.
avindroth 5y ago
You came here for novelty and interesting tidbits, you are getting them.
pharmakom 5y ago
Don’t you see value in looking at projects in the cutting edge? Ideas from Clojure already appear in more mainstream languages. This is your chance to be ahead of the curve and maybe even learn techniques you can apply today.
nickkell 5y ago
I'm reading hacker news at work to distract me. Why would I want to see c#, java or php?
the_only_law 5y ago
Clojure is hardly what I’d call an “obscure” language. I’ll never understand that insane amount of offense people take from others sharing their personal work built with tools they enjoy/ see fit. > gets barely any mention here (and when it does, it's for major lang releases and it's typically poopooed hard) and you basically see ZERO threads about the news from within these huge ecosystems. Sounds like you’re projecting or something. C# tends to get a lot of love and while you’ll probably still find some negative comments about PHP or Java here, there’s always enough people praising them for what they’ve provided.

brundolf 5y ago

Engineers are drawn to novel and exciting things; there's nothing wrong with that But it's also not been my experience that the typical atmosphere around C#/Java posts that show up here has been "poopoo"

ironmagma 5y ago

Clojure has a decent sized ecosystem by now. The language is almost 15 years old so there is a fair amount of tooling and protocol support.

outworlder 5y ago

There's nothing obscure about ClojureScript. Or React.

weatherlight 5y ago

Make something interesting? I dunno. React is pretty main stream.

avindroth 5y ago

You came here for novelty and interesting tidbits, you are getting them.

pharmakom 5y ago

Don’t you see value in looking at projects in the cutting edge? Ideas from Clojure already appear in more mainstream languages. This is your chance to be ahead of the curve and maybe even learn techniques you can apply today.

nickkell 5y ago

I'm reading hacker news at work to distract me. Why would I want to see c#, java or php?

the_only_law 5y ago

Clojure is hardly what I’d call an “obscure” language. I’ll never understand that insane amount of offense people take from others sharing their personal work built with tools they enjoy/ see fit. > gets barely any mention here (and when it does, it's for major lang releases and it's typically poopooed hard) and you basically see ZERO threads about the news from within these huge ecosystems. Sounds like you’re projecting or something. C# tends to get a lot of love and while you’ll probably still find some negative comments about PHP or Java here, there’s always enough people praising them for what they’ve provided.