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Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by mhluongo on Friday July 14, 2017 @01:57PM (#14771814)
It's not a strawman at all- many of us who run Clojure have had to switch to other langs for parts of our infrastructure that require faster start-up time. Think Lambda / "serverless" computing, etc

Agreed it doesn't help with static dependencies, which is why I didn't mention it ;)

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Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by pebers on Saturday July 15, 2017 @05:34AM (#14775839)
It is a straw man - you're justifying your suggested solution by comparing it to something that is already considered bad in the area. That's exactly what a straw man is.
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Re:How CircleCI Processes 4.5M Builds per Month by mhluongo on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:02AM (#14789130)
You're suggesting the answer to "we need better startup time" must be "we need the best startup time possible"? In that case, Go is also bad. Everything should be hand-rolled assembler.

Many of us who actually run Clojure in production have been bit by this, and Clojurescript has been fast enough to alleviate the issue. Not a straw man, a community meme.

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