Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp...
by StreamBright on Monday July 02, 2018 @07:48AM
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I am not sure about dying. Any time I need to use Clojure I have all the libraries I need and if I don't it takes me very little time to write a small wrapper around the Java library that provides the functionality. Saying Clojure is dying is the same as saying Java is dying. There are unmaintained libraries, no doubt of that, yet, it does not mean that the entire language is dying. Java8 was a great improvement for Clojure and I expect more coming down in the pipe for later Java releases.
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Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp...
by cutler on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:23AM
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A language cannot survive if it doesn't compete for adoption in the software industry, ie. paid jobs, and with so many languages competing for adoption Clojure's lacklustre marketing has cemented it's place in the history of also-rans. That doesn't mean Clojure isn't a great language. In fact I'd say it's the best language we have today.
Re:The Machine That Builds Itself: The Strengths of the Lisp...
by yogthos on Monday July 02, 2018 @09:33AM
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Language viability isn't a zero sum game. What you ultimately care about is that the language is actively developed, and that there is a viable ecosystem around it. Clojure has both those things, with plenty of companies using it to do real world work.