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0 pointsrednafi1y ago0 comments

It’s probably geared toward someone like me. JVM and parens are one angle.

Another is that I get paid to work with distributed systems and databases, and Clojure isn’t even part of the discussion in that sphere. Go, Rust, and the usual Python and Node dominate there, so it’s hard for me to care.

However, I dislike language monoculture and am curious about why people like the things I might not care about. This blog is for those.

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jwr1y ago

> distributed systems and databases, and Clojure isn’t even part of the discussion in that sphere

I'm not sure what a programming language has to do with distributed systems and databases, but as another data point, I happily work with distributed systems and databases, using Clojure :-)

(see also https://jepsen.io which I would very much call a "part of the discussion in that sphere", written in Clojure)

huahaiy1y ago

I thought distributed system is exactly one of the things that got Clojure going to begin with. Remember Storm?

As to databases, there are a fountain of databases emerging from the Clojure ecosystem: Datomic, Datascript, Datalevin, XTDB, and friends aside, there is Rama, which is a distributed database (or to replace database?)

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