Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?

Re:Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? by weaksauce on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:33PM (#14419531)

I absolutely cannot stand significant whitespace... it is a step back in almost every area of usability.

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Re:Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? by flavio81 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @06:47PM (#14465627)

Why?

I have done two major (commercial) software projects in Python, with a good amount of code, several months of work, and I've never had ANY kind of problem with the indentation/whitespace.

Any Python IDE (like Pycharm) will easily highlight you where each section of code sits relative to the indentation level, so it's really pretty simple. Really, really simple.

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Re:Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? by goatlover on Friday May 26, 2017 @03:03AM (#14422433)

In your opinion. For you it's a step back. For some of us it's very easy to read and write.

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Re:Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? by weaksauce on Friday May 26, 2017 @02:53PM (#14426312)

I don't really get this line of thought... are curly braces really that hard to read and get in the way of things to you?

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Re:Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? by throwaway7645 on Thursday May 25, 2017 @09:15PM (#14421433)

I love both Lisp & Python. I'm not sure about large projects, but to me, nothing is easier to read than Python and a lot of people agree. It is so strict and authoritarian that nearly everyone ends up writing similar code. Good for sharing scripts on my team. If I write Perl, only I can understand it...and even that is temporary lol (I joke, but you get the point).

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Re:Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? by cutler on Friday May 26, 2017 @12:39AM (#14422029)

If you love Lisp & Python try Hy (hylang.org).

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