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by synthc 4y ago
I'd say 100% developer churn is the real problem here, no inherited 100kloc codebase is going to be a walk in the park if the original devs are not around. However, I do think that it harder to keep a large code base understandable whe
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by synthc 4y ago
Cute, but i'll counter with this one: > Any sufficiently complicated Clojure program contains an ad hoc, > informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Spring.
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by synthc 4y ago
deps is more flexible, but I you just want to run a repl, build and deploy code then lein still works fine. I usually default to leiningen: I can't be arsed to spend time configuring deps to do what lein does out of the box. (For examp
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by synthc 4y ago
Disagree about Java, I've worked on several large Spring applications and making small changes was not a problem at all.
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by synthc 4y ago
With great power comes great responsibility. When using the REPL you can quickly experiment until it does what you want, but you need the discipline to distill something maintainable from it afterwards.
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by synthc 4y ago
No namespaces loaded is not a very good benchmark IMO, a real project will have lots of them. I've worked on a large project with many namespaces and dependencies and it took about 20 seconds.
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by synthc 4y ago
When you mess up the repl session somehow, for example by starting a http server on a port but not storing the server object. You now have blocked a port, and restarting the server does not work. Or if you run something like (future (while
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by synthc 4y ago
This is just not true at all. Everyone can join the Clojurians slack, it is a very welcoming place, also to newcomers, in my experience. Everyone can create issues and patches, getting them accepted may take a long time, but the core team d
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by synthc 4y ago
I'm very familiar with the live editing aspect of Clojure, and I like it a lot actually. What I am saying is that Clojure's long startup time is still annoying if you want to restart, for example if you trashed your repl session o
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by synthc 4y ago
I've used all combinations lein,deps,figwheel,shadow-cljs,cider and cursive, but haven't been able to reproduce the same frictionless setup I had then, something always breaks when switching between clj and cljs files.
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by synthc 4y ago
I think one problem is that these days you use so many frameworks and libraries that is hard to get a good mental model of how software performs and where bottlenecks are. Another problem is that performance often given lower priority in en
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by synthc 4y ago
I feel your pain regarding ClojureScript. A few years back there was a 3 month window where I had everything (lein,fighweel, emacs) configured just right, and I could reliably start a Clojure REPL, a Clojure Script REPL connected to a bro
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by synthc 4y ago
I also worked this way, I've had REPL sessions that ran for months, but IMO this is a workaround rather than a real solution. It's a good workaround, but fast startup would be a game changer. If Clojure would start fast enough, pr
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by synthc 4y ago
REPL driven development is great, but there are still tons of situations where you want a full recompile and restart. Slow compile and start time really slow down development. Recently I was porting a small application from Clojure to Rust,
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by synthc 4y ago
Yeah it is too bad Incanter stalled, it could have been an great alternative to Python's data science stack (pandas/numpy/matplotlib) if it had gotten traction at the right time. It lacks some polish and has some wierd conven
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by synthc 4y ago
I would not say it is dead at all. There are still Clojure jobs and new companies using Clojure. It is a niche language, and I think it will stay a niche language, but that is fine.
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by synthc 4y ago
This the reason I use my own domain and a paid email service. I used Gmail before but got super worried about all the stories of accounts getting blocked with no way of contacting a human. Sure domain registrars and email providers are not
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by synthc 4y ago
They don't do sport or clubs, but still spend plenty of time on grading and preparation.
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by synthc 4y ago
The same problem is happening in NL, it's a downwards spiral really that concerns me a lot. The government is trying to improve the situation by increasing pay a little, but with the current inflation it is probably too little, too lat
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by synthc 4y ago
Really cool! The repl is great for development, but static binaries are great for deployment, this may give us both.
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by synthc 4y ago
babashka is great for scripting, but it is basically is a Clojure interpreter written in AOT compiled Graal-compatible Clojure. Because is is AOT compiled is starts fast, but its much slower than JVM-Clojure for long running tasks. A native
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by synthc 4y ago
Datomic is great but i think its missing some features that many enterprises need (access control and a query planner). Also it seems to be mostly built for DynamoDB/AWS.
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by synthc 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (EU timezone) I'm currently looking for part-time contracts or short consulting gigs in addition to my current assignment. My main assignment ends this fall, also happy to discuss longer full-time engagements star
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by synthc 4y ago
Sounds like Clojure would alo have been a good fit (STM, persistent datastructures, functional)
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by synthc 4y ago
I think they would. Toyota already had very good hybrid cars for years, so plenty of experiences with batteries. Tesla made electric cars sexy, but I was always just a matter of time before electric would go mainstream.
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by synthc 4y ago
jokes aside, this is all pretty much required functionality for mature applications
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by synthc 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE (EU timezone) I'm currently looking for part-time contracts or short consulting gigs in addition to my current assignment. My main assignment ends this fall, also happy to discuss longer full-time engagements star
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by synthc 5y ago
BTC uses a lot of energy, some of it excess clean energy, but mostly just dirty energy. It is far from helping the environment. Storing excess clean energy, now that would help the enviroment. Using excess clean energy for BTC means storag
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by synthc 5y ago
I'm working from home now, but it gets lonely sometimes and for some discussions face to face contact is just better. I'd love to work in an office if I had my own room, or share one with a few team members at most, but nearly all
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by synthc 5y ago
For Clojure there are libraries to refresh the program: these stop the app, reload and evaluate all the source code files, and restart the app to ensure you are working with a consistent state that reflects the source code. Between such rel

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