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> When a programming language has 1000x as many developers you simply get a richer ecosystem Interesting comment given the article. That's the magic of Clojure
by didibus 4y ago
> When a programming language has 1000x as many developers you simply get a richer ecosystem
Interesting comment given the article. That's the magic of Clojure being hosted, you get the rich Java ecosystem and get to use your Lisp that you love.
The downside is you still need to deal with the rich ecosystem that isn't as nice as if there was a rich one in Clojure.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoYou are correct, Clojure does get Java’s rich ecosystem, and Python’s via pythonlib. There is some impedance mismatch that you don’t get using, for example, Python directly. It will be interesting to see what languages win out long term. I really don’t like programming with Rust but it is becoming wildly popular. I do like Swift, the language is intuitive to me, has good REPL support, and has awesome standard libraries for machine learning and just about everything else. All that said, I am an old man, I like Lisp languages, and that works for me.
- cutler 4y agoHe said 1000x developers not libraries. Big difference.