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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by nur0n on Saturday October 03, 2020 @05:00PM (#24674632)
Can you elaborate on your experience?

I have great respect for Rich Hickey and I recently saw a cool talk about a financial startup using Clojure in production [1]. I have kept track of the language for some time but have never had the chance to use it in any serious capacity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnediEWRuyI

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Re:An opinionated history of programming languages by jolux on Sunday October 04, 2020 @12:09AM (#24676462)
I think it’s a great language and a good community but I think some of the opposition to static types from Rich Hickey at the top is silly and I also find it genuinely harder to use languages which aren’t gaining wider traction after being around for over ten years.
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