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Six years of professional Clojure development10.05.2021 Permalink Over the last couple of years me and my colleagues here at doctronic have been busy creating and maintaining more than a dozen of individual software systems for our clients. We have the privilege to almost exclusively use Clojure and ClojureScript, as this is still the valid strategic technology decision made by doctronic shortly before I joined them in 2015. In this post I d like to list some of the strengths and weaknesses in everyday real-life use of the language and its ecosystem.
Stability of the language and libraries: Anyone who ever created software of practical value for paying customers
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Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of a language helps with design decisions.
Clojure frees developers from the perils of writing concurrent programs, but at a price.
When concurrency is not a factor, consider using Java.
Experimenting, iterating, and frequently measuring is key to achieving optimal results.
Standing on the shoulders of giants, Donkey is the product of the quest for a highly performant HTTP stack aimed to: (1) scale at the rapid pace of growth we have been experiencing at AppsFlyer, and (2) save us computing costs.
Though our implementation is still in its early stages, with limited production mileage, we’ve seen such impressive numbers in our benchmark testing that we couldn’t keep it to ourselves.
I’d like to share my experience of encountering Hotwire from the team at Basecamp which was extracted from the tooling used to build their Hey product. I was so pleased to see DHH tweet about it and took some time over my end-of-year vacation to delve into it.
[Thanks to Joachim, Michael & Stefan from INNOQ, and Tudor and the speakerconf cohort for feedback. Also thanks to Oliver for the interest from the Spring Boot team, and special thanks to Bruno for inspiring the Thymeleaf configuration.]
The history
Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire.