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That's a tough question to answer as Clojure is a really great language and Rich Hickey is someone whose every word I'll read or listen to in a video. Someone

That's a tough question to answer as Clojure is a really great language and Rich Hickey is someone whose every word I'll read or listen to in a video. Someone more well-versed in Clojure than I can probably answer this better, but in my opinion: - Clojure runs on the JVM, so Clojure's concurrency is still sharing memory deep down, whereas Elixir is not. - I would think Elixir has deeper library options than Clojure due to having interoperability with Erlang. I guess in Clojure you get all the Java libraries too, though. - While Leiningen is a much better build tool than other JVM build tools, it still reeks of too much configuration. Mix is very, very simple. - Clojure, for sanity purposes, requires using a very Lisp-specific development environment. Clojure isn't the only language I use so using something like vim-fireplace or Emacs just for Clojure was a bit much for me. I'm happy to be wrong on any of my points above and again I think both Elixir and Clojure are great.

klibertp 12y ago
In my experience Leiningen is so much slower for typical, casual use case than rebar and mix that it was a serious inconvenience. I didn't try to solve it by having something like a deamon always running in a background or something like this though, it's possible that this is already addressed. > requires using a very Lisp-specific development environment I'm an Emacs user, so it was very natural for me, but I think it can be a problem for others. On the other hand I hear that there are excellent plugins for widely-used IDEs for Clojure. Actually, as Clojure is a Lisp, the only thing you really need is an editor which handles sexps well. Emacs Paredit is really great for this: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html but as long as you get similar functionality you can use anything you want.

klibertp 12y ago

In my experience Leiningen is so much slower for typical, casual use case than rebar and mix that it was a serious inconvenience. I didn't try to solve it by having something like a deamon always running in a background or something like this though, it's possible that this is already addressed. > requires using a very Lisp-specific development environment I'm an Emacs user, so it was very natural for me, but I think it can be a problem for others. On the other hand I hear that there are excellent plugins for widely-used IDEs for Clojure. Actually, as Clojure is a Lisp, the only thing you really need is an editor which handles sexps well. Emacs Paredit is really great for this: http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html http://emacsrocks.com/e14.html but as long as you get similar functionality you can use anything you want.