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by seancorfield 5mo ago
What do you mean by "falling apart"? Clojure is the most stable and robust language I've ever used, and I've been using it in production for 15 years now.
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by seancorfield 5mo ago
Clojure 1.9: Spec. Clojure 1.10: datafy/nav + tap> which has spawned a whole new set of tooling for exploring data. Clojure 1.11: portable math (clojure.math, which also works on ClojureScript). Clojure 1.12: huge improvements in Ja
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by seancorfield 1y ago
Think of Civitas as a "static site generator" that uses the GH pages for the project as the public hosting for all the content -- a centralized, Clojure-specific blog if you like.
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by seancorfield 1y ago
Absolutely this, yes! If you post a JS position, you will get 1,000 or more applicants, so it is a huge amount of work behind the scenes to filter this down to try to find the vaguely worthwhile candidates to interview. If you post, for exa
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by seancorfield 1y ago
A lot of companies seem to want to hire folks who "think like me". IMO, that's a mistake: you need diversity of thought to provide new insights into problems. If you all think the same way, and one of you gets stuck, then it&
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by seancorfield 1y ago
I'm surprised this seemed to be voted down. I've been a hiring manager for over 30 years, and I never do "technical tests" -- no take-home, no live coding, none of it. I have a map of topics and questions, and I get the
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by seancorfield 2y ago
I guess it depends what the tech stack was before? Where I work, we were previously a ColdFusion shop when I joined, and after a false start with Scala, I introduced Clojure and it stuck: we cross-trained the CF devs and slowly rewrote the
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by seancorfield 2y ago
My bad... the sixth time (the fifth time was under a different title).
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by seancorfield 2y ago
The fifth time this has been posted in just over a week... it must be a REALLY good article! :)
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by seancorfield 2y ago
Jeez, these FreshCodeIT guys are really spamming us lately...
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by seancorfield 2y ago
There have been several comments from the core team folks that a vthread variant of core.async is being considered. It would be a different library and may be somewhat API-compatible -- but that's all up in the air right now.
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by seancorfield 2y ago
Babashka is a self-contained executable that can run with no dependencies. I was not commenting on the appropriateness of introducing a scripting language for devops work. I was responding to your incorrect assumption that writing scripts i
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by seancorfield 2y ago
There's babashka for scripting without the JVM, which I think quite a few Clojurians use for devops-style work.
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by seancorfield 3y ago
What exactly is the question here?
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by seancorfield 3y ago
I sympathize to a degree. I've worked in startups, and I've worked in Large Corps, but size alone isn't necessarily correlated with "fun" and startups aren't always good environments, nor do fun startups always
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by seancorfield 3y ago
Annual Leave, probably.
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by seancorfield 3y ago
There's a lot of cool Java interop stuff coming in Clojure 1.12 that might help here (Alpha 6 should drop "soon").
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by seancorfield 3y ago
I've been doing Java since '97 and have gone through dozens of IDEs and editors over the years -- and never used IntelliJ (because I don't like it).
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by seancorfield 3y ago
As the current maintainer of clojure-doc.org, I'd be happy to hear your feedback on what needs additional explanation/clarification. This year's funding by Clojurists Together allowed me to spend a lot of time completely rewr
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by seancorfield 3y ago
Seven years ago you would have been using Clojure 1.8 or earlier I expect? A LOT has happened with the language and the tooling since then! Clojure 1.9 gave us Spec "for describing, validating, and testing the structure of data and fun
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by seancorfield 3y ago
This has been posted repeatedly before: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by seancorfield 3y ago
> At least in the official docs, things should be cleaned up and made much more user friendly. The source of clojure.org is at https://github.com/clojure/clojure-site/ and it gets a pretty constant stream of up
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by seancorfield 3y ago
This has already been posted several times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505733 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486486 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477850
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by seancorfield 3y ago
This has already been posted several times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36505733 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36486486 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36477850
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by seancorfield 3y ago
Improving your skills is always relevant. I think The Pragmatic Programmer's advice to learn a new programming language every year is aspirational but still good -- I've tried to learn a new language every few years for the past c
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by seancorfield 3y ago
The Juxt T shirt is an awesome design -- I love it!
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by seancorfield 3y ago
Already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35630868
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by seancorfield 3y ago
After many years of Emacs (decades, in fact), I went through a few other editors and ended up with VS Code + Calva + Joyride (so I can script VS Code using ClojureScript) + Portal to visualize results. When I got started with Clojure (back
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by seancorfield 4y ago
Clojure evolves slowly and deliberately -- it gets about one release a year (with various prereleases) so "2 months" between commits isn't a big deal. I consider it a "feature" because it means Clojure is extremely
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by seancorfield 4y ago
If you're a Clojure developer and you're using the next.jdbc library you don't need to ask that question :)

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