Every time I write another DTO → domain → DB mapping layer in Kotlin/TypeScript, I think about Clojure. I’m pretty grateful I learned it. It really changed how I think about software. Still, it’s a trade: less ceremony, more responsibility.
Clojure is very enjoyable if you respect the practices encouraged by Rich Hickey.
I've worked with Clojure in a number of companies, it's an elegant language and a thing of real beauty when done well, but it's not so much fun when you're working on a codebase that doesn't respect the philosophy of avoiding breaking changes; especially when these breaking changes are done in library code, and where a more liberal approach has been taken when it comes testing.
"less ceremony, more responsibility" is a good summary, in a larger codebase a bit of ceremony is not always a bad thing though. I'm also glad I learnt Clojure, it made me a far better programmer.
Kudos to Mr Hickey, I'm looking forward to the documentary.
I was lucky at one point to work professionally with Clojure for several years and it has made a huge impact how I think and write code in other languages as well. Also, those other languages now seem needlessly verbose and annoying compared with Clojure.
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Every time I write another DTO → domain → DB mapping layer in Kotlin/TypeScript, I think about Clojure. I’m pretty grateful I learned it. It really changed how I think about software. Still, it’s a trade: less ceremony, more responsibility.
Clojure is very enjoyable if you respect the practices encouraged by Rich Hickey.
I've worked with Clojure in a number of companies, it's an elegant language and a thing of real beauty when done well, but it's not so much fun when you're working on a codebase that doesn't respect the philosophy of avoiding breaking changes; especially when these breaking changes are done in library code, and where a more liberal approach has been taken when it comes testing.
"less ceremony, more responsibility" is a good summary, in a larger codebase a bit of ceremony is not always a bad thing though. I'm also glad I learnt Clojure, it made me a far better programmer.
Kudos to Mr Hickey, I'm looking forward to the documentary.
I was lucky at one point to work professionally with Clojure for several years and it has made a huge impact how I think and write code in other languages as well. Also, those other languages now seem needlessly verbose and annoying compared with Clojure.