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i would argue that clojure is very successful i think (probably more like a statment of obvious) language success depends equally on the libraries available fo
by systems 13y ago
i would argue that clojure is very successful
i think (probably more like a statment of obvious) language success depends equally on the libraries available for it
clojure have a lot of libraries, and leiningen
and echo the "worse is better" slogan
i think that languages that offer a little more feature above the current mainstream languages, will success more than languages that offer a lot more
most programmers are doers, they prefer to spend more time doing rather than learning
languages that are too smart ... are less likely to succeed
not until the day ... they become only a little bit better than the mainstream
we move slowly from c to c++ to java to ruby ...
the next big language is one that is only a little bit better than ruby ... not a lot better
i think clojure fit the bill
- deadghost 13y agoIf clojure is only a little bit better than ruby, is there a language you think is a lot better?
- systems 13y agowell, i guess ... having a second thought about it, clojure is very different from ruby, being a lisp i am sure most of the ideas in clojure wont be alien to most rubyist ... but still its a fairly large departure from ruby a language that is only one or few steps above ruby, will have to use closer syntax ... be more or less focused on OO rather than functional programming