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Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure by vosper on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:42PM (#10665648)
The small amount of development I've done with Clojure convinced me that you just can't ignore Java - you're going to end up spending time reading Java docs, and debugging Java stacktraces. If you really dislike Java I don't think choosing Clojure is a great option, either (I don't know about Scala).
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Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure by tlrobinson on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:24PM (#10665938)
(Metabase dev here)

> you're going to end up spending time reading Java docs

That's actually a benefit IMHO. If no one has created a nice Clojure library or wrapper for something you want to do it's at least possible to use the massive number of existing Java libraries directly from Clojure.

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