Re:Metabase: Why we picked Clojure
by slowmovintarget on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:30PM
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> Also the persistent data-structures of Clojure make life so much easier. It's basically a language build around persistent maps and arrays.
When programming in Java (which I did for 14 years), I always thought about the little machines I was making and how they interacted. In Clojure, I'm thinking about what shape the data should be and what stack of stencils and folds (as a visual metaphor) I need to get it into that shape.
That is to say, Java is object-oriented, Clojure is data-oriented. So take data-orientation and add easy-mode concurrency and you have something wonderful.
When programming in Java (which I did for 14 years), I always thought about the little machines I was making and how they interacted. In Clojure, I'm thinking about what shape the data should be and what stack of stencils and folds (as a visual metaphor) I need to get it into that shape.
That is to say, Java is object-oriented, Clojure is data-oriented. So take data-orientation and add easy-mode concurrency and you have something wonderful.