The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure

Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by jacquesm on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:14AM (#1708864)

> Where I currently work, for better or worse, the micro-development manager has forbidden the use of JavaScript libraries. The net effect has been that some developers have left/been let go and thous of us that have stayed have had to learn to roll our own.

I don't think that kind of 'NIH' is very productive in the longer term but it must be a great place to work if you're encouraged to re-invent the wheel.

Most places would try to avoid such a waste of resources. Maybe there would be a way to convince him of rolling your own company specific OS?

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by shawndumas on Monday September 20, 2010 @10:57AM (#1709031)

As we are now discussing my current employer and boss's decisions third party -- and given the accessibility and permanency of the web -- all I am comfortable saying is that, in the long run, having stronger developers that throughly know their code-base can be a huge win.

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by jacquesm on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:00AM (#1709047)

Yes, I agree, it can be. It very much depends on the circumstances though, for most companies rolling your own ORM, framework, javascript libraries, database and so on are simply not an option, they'll be hard pressed to keep up with the demands of running their business.

Great stuff can come from that though, for instance, Django.

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Re:The Axis Of Eval: Why I ignore Clojure by shawndumas on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:20AM (#1709128)

Maybe that's why a lot of things like 20% projects, in-house text processing capabilities (troff), and PARC projects come from large, established companies.

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