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Clojure is my favorite language that I've never used in production. It truly is a joy to use. I just get nervous when thinking about building a real application
by christophilus 4y ago
Clojure is my favorite language that I've never used in production. It truly is a joy to use. I just get nervous when thinking about building a real application in it because of: lack of static typing and my temptation to be clever when writing it (this is inversely correlated with long-term maintenance).
But I'd agree that if you want to find joy in programming again, Clojure might do that for you. It's a lot of fun.
- atomicbeanie 4y agoI think the difference here is that static typing gives a poverty of real reliability guarantee's but one must always pay the cost. Since Clojure gives agency back to the programmer, there is a choice here. Clojure for production should check its types at the domain level or as close as possible, be simple, and spare. Personal experiments and tooling can be in a different style. It is just like building anything else, design and construction for maintainability is very different than prototyping or experimenting. Clojure has all the tools required to make robust production software. But it takes the intention and proper decision making to do so.