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Lisp Flavoured Erlang (lfe.io) needs more love, from what I’ve seen and tried with it - it could give clojure a run for its money.
by onyno 3y ago
Lisp Flavoured Erlang (lfe.io) needs more love, from what I’ve seen and tried with it - it could give clojure a run for its money.
- uxcolumbo 3y agoHow so? Can you share more details?
- fredrikholm 3y agoI'm guessing that OP is stating that the BEAM is a more preferable VM to that of the JVM, and that they prefer a Lisp over Erlang/Elixir.
- zilti 3y agoIt's really not hard to give Clojure that... I'm a full-time Clojure dev, but also use Scheme a lot, and while some Clojure features are great (mainly the STM), in a lot of cases the terribleness of certain language features and idioms makes me sigh. Lots of bad decisions have been made.
- uxcolumbo 3y agoYou mean lots of bad decision by the Clojure core team? Do you have some examples and what language features are terrible?
- rokkitmensch 3y agoMy pain points were the idiom of passing giant wads of data around in an unprincipled untyped fashion, and then rooting through them like a boar for nuts in the forest later. "Write tests!" and "use spec" were not great suggestions at the end of the day.
- harperlee 3y ago> (mainly the STM) Interestingly the clojure community at large does not really value or use it so much. I think even Rich Hickey commented on that at some point.