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This is great! Glad to see more Clojure adoption in the corporate world. It's definitely well deserved! I used it only once at work to develop a stress test fo

This is great! Glad to see more Clojure adoption in the corporate world. It's definitely well deserved! I used it only once at work to develop a stress test for a Java based game server. It was great fun to build, worked like a charm and ended up taking less than a thousand lines of code to implement the communications, bots and their execution scripts. Furthermore, the company just bought a copy of The Joy of Clojure and there's already a bunch of my coworkers interested in reading it. Good times!

virmundi 12y ago
A word of advice with Joy of Clojure: take up meditation. That book is surprisingly dense. I had to research topics ever few paragraphs. It is not a beginners books. Rather pair it with Clojure for the Brave and True. Combined the language comes alive. https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.braveclojure.com/&sa=U&ei=_PCmVKeDGoS1ggTSs4SIBw&ved=0CAwQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHwREuT-zFOIgs3_qMP0MGHnqITuA https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.braveclojure.com/&sa...
- jeremiep 12y ago
  Good advice! The book is definitely dense and packed with useful information. I didn't read Clojure for the Brave and True yet, I'll add it to my reading list, thanks! However, I found it easier to digest than Let Over Lambda which was a real mind bender for me a few years ago. Being a LISP fan before learning about Clojure definitely made learning it much, much easier. It also made me appreciate the language early on for its impressive beauty, elegance and simplicity.
reitzensteinm 12y ago
Similar experience here. I wrote a log parser with indexing and hierarchical cache invalidation to deal with larger than memory amounts of logs quickly and in a natural coding style, and after that I was hooked. Tiny code base, good performance, little need for ugly hacks. My latest site is now written in it and clojure script, and I see no reason to not continue. Though cljs is definitely a few years behind on the stability curve.
- jeremiep 12y ago
  I haven't had any major issues with cljs yet. I'm using it for personal side-projects where I prototype random ideas along with Om and React. I've had some issues with the Austin REPL however, there is sometimes random disconnections and it was hard to setup the first time, but using it is so much fun it completely shadows these issues.
  - dkersten 12y ago
    I've had some issues with the Austin REPL however I've switched to using the Weasel[1] REPL instead and haven't had any disconnect problems since. Its also a little easier to setup (although still not "easy"). [1] https://github.com/tomjakubowski/weasel https://github.com/tomjakubowski/weasel

virmundi 12y ago

A word of advice with Joy of Clojure: take up meditation. That book is surprisingly dense. I had to research topics ever few paragraphs. It is not a beginners books. Rather pair it with Clojure for the Brave and True. Combined the language comes alive. https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.braveclojure.com/&sa=U&ei=_PCmVKeDGoS1ggTSs4SIBw&ved=0CAwQFjAA&usg=AFQjCNHwREuT-zFOIgs3_qMP0MGHnqITuA https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.braveclojure.com/&sa...

jeremiep 12y ago
Good advice! The book is definitely dense and packed with useful information. I didn't read Clojure for the Brave and True yet, I'll add it to my reading list, thanks! However, I found it easier to digest than Let Over Lambda which was a real mind bender for me a few years ago. Being a LISP fan before learning about Clojure definitely made learning it much, much easier. It also made me appreciate the language early on for its impressive beauty, elegance and simplicity.

reitzensteinm 12y ago

Similar experience here. I wrote a log parser with indexing and hierarchical cache invalidation to deal with larger than memory amounts of logs quickly and in a natural coding style, and after that I was hooked. Tiny code base, good performance, little need for ugly hacks. My latest site is now written in it and clojure script, and I see no reason to not continue. Though cljs is definitely a few years behind on the stability curve.

jeremiep 12y ago
I haven't had any major issues with cljs yet. I'm using it for personal side-projects where I prototype random ideas along with Om and React. I've had some issues with the Austin REPL however, there is sometimes random disconnections and it was hard to setup the first time, but using it is so much fun it completely shadows these issues.
- dkersten 12y ago
  I've had some issues with the Austin REPL however I've switched to using the Weasel[1] REPL instead and haven't had any disconnect problems since. Its also a little easier to setup (although still not "easy"). [1] https://github.com/tomjakubowski/weasel https://github.com/tomjakubowski/weasel