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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by fulafel on Monday January 07, 2019 @01:45AM (#18843289)
Can you expand on the comment about Kubernetes and VMs?

I don't know much about Kubernetes but AFAIK people just put a jar file and JVM in the container image and run it just like any other server app. The jar files can get big (100+ MB) if you have lots of deps, but not to the extent that container image size would be problematic in normal server app environments.

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Re:How innovative is Clojure as a Lisp dialect from Lisp exp... by StreamBright on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:10AM (#18843606)
Well JAR files are that big because many java devs import libraries that they never use and you end up with 100+ dependencies when you really need 10. Clojure (Maven) has a way of dealing with this using :exclusions. My typical jar files are 10 - 50MB which are manageable today very well.
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