iLemming

Was it before Spec? In my experience - wise use of Clojure.Spec makes a big difference.

There are not too many dynamically typed languages that truly allow you not to miss static typing. One of them is Clojure. I can't explain exactly how, but somehow I think Clojure is fine without…

It's too bad Clojure was not considered. I think it would be the most concise codebase and the most easiest to reason about.

Slack also has other problems that have been totally ignored and neglected for years. One of them is accessibility. The app is impossible to work with without a mouse. They say it is "keyboard dr…

I think Python has become so popular because Google started using it, but then later they switched to Golang. But the Python train was unstoppable at that point, even MIT swapped Scheme with it in the…

> Python has a huge amount of introductory learning material that assumes it is your first language, while most FP languages (Ex: Clojure, Haskell, F#, Scala, OCaml) really struggle in this area I …

I think C# is "worse is better" of F#. That is why sadly, F# never become as popular, as it could have.

Coffeescript did not offer anything but different syntax. It hasn't improved the semantics of the language. Some people liked it and some didn't. Elm, PureScript, and Clojurescript are funda…

check out this project https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer . I wish something like Hammerspoon existed for Linux.…

Facebook has already made that mistake with PHP. They are still paying the hefty price for that. Language popularity at a given time doesn't guarantee a higher ROI in the future. For the next cou…

That's not just sad, it is really strange. Seems enterprise would never learn from the mistakes of the past. Javascript is new Java - it's getting bigger every year, its syntax almost confus…

> Golang does the best job of maintaining a high quality standard library. Why? Not only Go. Clojure as well. Clojure's standard library is incredibly consistent and stable. Documentation pret…

experienced users know: it's better to be in development branch than in master. Sadly that's is the current state of affairs with Spacemacs. Development branch ironically is more stable - ye…

There's a lot more than just functional programming here. Use Clojure for a couple of years, and I guarantee: it spoils you, and you would never want to go back to your previous workflow - it wou…

I do work for a Fintech startup as well. We use Clojure and Clojurescript - it simply makes sense for us. It is extremely pragmatic choice that allows us to move fast safely. Seeing and experiencing a…

It was six years ago. Try again, maybe? Clojure is slowly but steadily growing. The world is never "ready." It was never ready for Clojure, OCaml, for Smalltalk, for Haskell, for Purescript,…

Java as a language might be not so difficult to learn and understand, but using it for writing real applications can become convoluted pretty quick. Siding with Java in arguments against it, today is …

Spacemacs doesn't magically liberate you from having to learn Emacs - it simply makes certain things more obvious, but also it obscures some other things. Be patient with it and you'll be re…

> Clojure suffers from a lack of ambition it already has reached an unprecedented level of adoption for a Lisp used in commercial software. But I agree with you - it would be nice to see it grow fa…

The biggest disadvantage of Elixir today - it doesn't have its own thing comparable with Clojurescript. Clojurescript is not just extremely nice compiler that gives you syntactic sugar, you can t…

Not just that. Clojure actually has a lot of features. It's not just "yet another Lisp on JVM". here's an excerpt from Joker page (Clojure linter written in Go): Protocols, records…

Whenever I ask to explain JVM criticism, people either really have nothing to say, or most of the time it turns out to be hatred of Java. JVM is a very solid piece of tech and it is hated for all the …

Come back when you are ready to use Clojure for real, not for a weekend reading through tutorial blogs. Clojure's concurrency story is extremely well implemented.

No, I've been hoping to write a blogpost about the process but been procrastinating for ages. Unfortunately I can't make my dotfile public - there are things in init that I rather keep priva…

And I (after using InteliJ for nearly 7 years) switched to Spacemacs and never been happier. VSCode becoming so popular, people think you're crazy if you're not using it. Monoculture is neve…

I really want something like Hammerspoon, but for Linux

You ever tried Clojurescript?

> it's possible that Elm is the most widely used JS alternative at this point Cough. Cough. Clojurescript. Cough.

> As much as I love Clojure, it's still a harrowing language for beginners to learn and use I have worked with several people for whom Clojure was the very first PL they have learned and they …

Yeah, haters gonna hate - it's human's nature. Give a man a powerful tool that solves lots of problems with two* most popular platforms today: Java and Javascript and they still will be comp…