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by ballpark 3y ago
My interpretation... the author is arguing against creating a new Domain Specific Language when you could just use the host language.
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by ballpark 3y ago
you prefer statically typed languages?
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by ballpark 3y ago
I like that the author points out that trying to write a new interpreter is not a good idea. However, to call that DDD, and then to say DDD is a lie is where I would disagree. I guess one could say that it's DDD taken to some extreme
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by ballpark 3y ago
It's definitely not over. I got into it professionally in 2018, and have remained employed with it at three different companies. There's turmoil around it because startups use it with great success, but then as they want to scal
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by ballpark 3y ago
I'm not sure about that. Python was a good 20 years old when it became mainstream
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by ballpark 3y ago
I see what you mean. Well answered. I think there needs to be a fix for this... like make Clojure first class for bits/bytes levels of programming. :)
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by ballpark 3y ago
> [Clojure] is really optimized for [\snip] data centric stuff Not sure what this means. Stu Halloway made a comment to the effect of "all programming is ultimately data transformations". Honest question here, what programmin
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by ballpark 4y ago
Funnyduck99 is probably mocking all the people that go into HN posts about Clojure to complain about how their team of non-Clojure programmers went to work on a Clojure project and it was a bad experience.
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by ballpark 4y ago
too easy and too fun. Also, to anyone interested in this problem, look for the Worse is Better paper
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by ballpark 4y ago
> It's really not a language for big team. Not my experience, but you do need senior devs who are good at Clojure to be reviewing and helping the juniors > if I had a tough day, my clj code will look like rubbish This may not be
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by ballpark 4y ago
Interesting point. I've recently taken on a client who insists on using C# with their cloud solution. It's killing me. Though you're calling Clojure "advanced", what I'm missing is its simplicity.
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by ballpark 4y ago
I used the Cider debugger with Clojure with some success, but as I got better at REPL-driven development I ultimately stopped firing up the debugger
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by ballpark 4y ago
What kind of differences/limitations are there when interpreting Clojurescript (nbb) as opposed to compiling it (shadow-cljs, lein, self-hosted?, other things?)?
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by ballpark 5y ago
I hope that you'll pay him. If you don't it will be an indication of lack of clues
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by ballpark 5y ago
I also choose to work for companies that use Clojure/Clojurescript. I'm not debating about languages that are better or not, but I get annoyed working in most others.
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by ballpark 5y ago
I've found this to be a non-issue in Clojure with specification validation. Some call this gradual typing
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by ballpark 5y ago
I'm not following, could you elaborate?
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by ballpark 6y ago
It can be indicative of the goodness of a language when you use it for 9 years and are still a huge fan. I'm in the same boat.
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by ballpark 6y ago
Yes, Clojure > Is it possible to build web apps in common lisp or any lisp? Any frameworks available? Clojure would be good because it has lots of users. Many web apps in production. It might be good to start out with luminus for Cloju
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by ballpark 6y ago
I think I would find it great fun to take a Clojure codebase like this one that you inherited and refactor it to something workable and maintainable! I agree it's probably not a job for a Clojure newbie.
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by ballpark 6y ago
A good post on the Expression Problem, and the benefits of Clojure's solution to it: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2016/the-expression-problem-an... Also, I agree, it's interesting to hear his experience repo
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by ballpark 6y ago
I've watched a number of Clojure centric talks from Nubank employees. Actually, I think it was one particular employee, but I don't remember his name. One was on how they do testing. The others were about Fulcro, which is a very
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by ballpark 6y ago
I get it. Also, the community is active in their Clojurians Slack channel #fulcro
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by ballpark 6y ago
I find myself going to the youtube videos a lot. There's a lot of new concepts in Fulcro. I'm surprised how long it's taking me to figure it out, but I haven't given up yet, and so far I'm liking it. I'm hop
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by ballpark 6y ago
Clojure (not Common Lisp, but a lisp) is more prominent than many people think. I use it, and it's a primary language in a R&D area at the fortune 50 company where I work.
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by ballpark 7y ago
As a rule, I only read lisp books
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by ballpark 7y ago
- Practical Common Lisp - Land of Lisp - http://landoflisp.com/ - watch the video, it's hilarious - Build Your Own Lisp - http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/ - Learn C by creating a lisp in C - In the spi
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by ballpark 7y ago
Based on Eric Normand's REPL Driven Development series, if I'm not mistaken, he considers evaling from the editor part of the REPL driven development flow, so it seems that evaling from the editor could also be considered "us
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by ballpark 7y ago
I stopped reading because the ads are obnoxious
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by ballpark 7y ago
Oh wow... not a chance

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