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An Interview with Rich Hickey about Clojure (A-Z series)

41 points by fogus 17y ago

paulsmith 17y ago
"Right now we're in the early adopter phase, with startups and ISVs using Clojure as a secret weapon and power tool." Are any YC start-ups using Clojure?
- jk4930 17y ago
  I'm not a YC startup, but I consider using Clojure for several projects. Am still checking it out.
- twism 17y ago
  Well it wouldn't be a "secret weapon" then, would it?
plinkplonk 17y ago
Bonus: Plenty of other great interviews linked to from the first paragraph of the article. I am reading an interview of Simin Peyton Jones. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261007/-z_programming_languages_haskell?fp=&fpid=&pf=1 http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261007/-z_programmin... The complete list is at http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/a-z%20of%20programming%20languages http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/a-z%20of%20programming%2... very informative and enjoyable! There goes the day. I'll be reading these all day!
icey 17y ago
Did anyone else notice that he's started mentioning the CLR a lot more in this article? I know that there has been some recent work on getting Clojure running on the CLR and Clojure-in-Clojure; but I thought it was interesting that it's starting to return to Rich's conversations as well.
- marcusbooster 17y ago
  Yeah, which makes some sense. I think Clojure's strength is that it makes inroads with Java developers (as opposed to Common Lisp guys jumping over). If he can get the same excitement out of some .NET'ers it could double his user base.
polos 17y ago
So: Clojure was born as a hybrid of FP and CL for the JVM, as that seemed perfect to the authors personal experience... Sorry, but I'll not abandon my own way for such a personal preference style (if I only could remember where I already saw this pattern... hm [...]). I'm perfectly OK with my chosen Lisp system (no, I won't tell you, no war fan I am).
- sketerpot 17y ago
  "The author prefers it" is suddenly a problem with a language? Have a look at Clojure; it's a very nice language on its own merits. (I particularly like the combination of software transactional memory with by-default immutable data structures.)
slpsys 17y ago
Nice! I've been waiting for the Clojure A-Z serious interview for while.

41 points by fogus 17y ago

"Right now we're in the early adopter phase, with startups and ISVs using Clojure as a secret weapon and power tool." Are any YC start-ups using Clojure?

jk4930 17y ago
I'm not a YC startup, but I consider using Clojure for several projects. Am still checking it out.
twism 17y ago
Well it wouldn't be a "secret weapon" then, would it?

plinkplonk 17y ago

Bonus: Plenty of other great interviews linked to from the first paragraph of the article. I am reading an interview of Simin Peyton Jones. http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261007/-z_programming_languages_haskell?fp=&fpid=&pf=1 http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261007/-z_programmin... The complete list is at http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/a-z%20of%20programming%20languages http://www.computerworld.com.au/tag/a-z%20of%20programming%2... very informative and enjoyable! There goes the day. I'll be reading these all day!

icey 17y ago

Did anyone else notice that he's started mentioning the CLR a lot more in this article? I know that there has been some recent work on getting Clojure running on the CLR and Clojure-in-Clojure; but I thought it was interesting that it's starting to return to Rich's conversations as well.

marcusbooster 17y ago
Yeah, which makes some sense. I think Clojure's strength is that it makes inroads with Java developers (as opposed to Common Lisp guys jumping over). If he can get the same excitement out of some .NET'ers it could double his user base.

polos 17y ago

So: Clojure was born as a hybrid of FP and CL for the JVM, as that seemed perfect to the authors personal experience... Sorry, but I'll not abandon my own way for such a personal preference style (if I only could remember where I already saw this pattern... hm [...]). I'm perfectly OK with my chosen Lisp system (no, I won't tell you, no war fan I am).

sketerpot 17y ago
"The author prefers it" is suddenly a problem with a language? Have a look at Clojure; it's a very nice language on its own merits. (I particularly like the combination of software transactional memory with by-default immutable data structures.)

slpsys 17y ago

Nice! I've been waiting for the Clojure A-Z serious interview for while.