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Politics. The similarity to Java, something many developers already know, is an appeal to current popular sentiment. You can advocate the superiority of Cloju
by jimbokun 5y ago
Politics.
The similarity to Java, something many developers already know, is an appeal to current popular sentiment. You can advocate the superiority of Clojure's S-expression inspired syntax or immutably data structures or pure functions all you want, most people will just pick something close to what they already know.
- kaba0 5y agoYeah, not arguing that, just wanted to point out that languages have different “activation energies” — one may be able to convince management to add some kotlin to the codebase, but it is much harder for a more exotic language.