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As non-mainstream languages go, in the financial industry, Scala is picking up steam. However, clojure is at the top of my list as the language I want to learn,
by paperwork 13y ago
As non-mainstream languages go, in the financial industry, Scala is picking up steam. However, clojure is at the top of my list as the language I want to learn, despite obstacles of limited time. Lisp has an impressive pedigree and Rich Hickey is a smart, pragmatic dude who seems to have spent a great deal of time thinking about reducing complexity in real-world software engineering.
- jamii 13y agoI think that's the real strength of clojure - not the language itself but that the community around it is focused on radically reducing complexity. Every project I have ever worked on that struggled or failed did so because the complexity outgrew the developers ability to manage it. It kind of scares me that scala is growing so quickly - from my experience working on a large scala project it seems to breed complexity like nothing else I've ever worked with (haskell, python, ocaml, erlang, clojure).