Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]
by empthought on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:09AM
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I think individual developers are most likely to become much, much more productive when using Clojure/Lisp vs. Java, C#, and the like, but software development teams are unlikely to experience the same benefits.
And it's not even because Clojure is bad for teams, it's because teams often form because there are nontechnical stakeholders, and suddenly an individual contributor's code-writing productivity is a much smaller factor when compared to the communication practices and other parts of the development process outside of writing code.
It is (sadly) not clear at all that programming language popularity (or rather, "online buzz" around a language which is all you can measure) correlates strongly with productivity.
I can only speak for myself, but I'm definitely much, much more productive using Clojure. I think its absence from HN is more reflective of a less-than-stellar onboarding experience for newcomers, and HN's general neophilia.
Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]
by StreamBright on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @10:19AM
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If there is one think about humanity that is worth to note is that the shittier alternative always wins. This is true from money through computer architectures to programming languages.
Reminds me of the classic Erann Gatt post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2308370
(I loved to play with Elisp, Clojure, Lua, Factor, Ion, Ioke and hope dynamic languages become fashionable again someday...)