Clojure 2014 Year in Review

Re:Clojure 2014 Year in Review by RussianCow on Friday January 02, 2015 @05:49PM (#8829009)

"beginning to see" != "already at". There is TONS of existing code written in OO languages--you can't expect functional languages to replace that overnight. However, functional languages like Clojure and F# are starting to become more common, even in corporate environments. (I know eBay and Wallmart use Clojure for some of their projects, among others.)

I don't know if the trend will continue (my guess is yes), but you shouldn't dismiss it just because C, C++, and Java are still the most widely-used programming languages in the world.

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Re:Clojure 2014 Year in Review by dominotw on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:05PM (#8829081)

But uptick is not significant enough to say that they have enough momentum. Most companies like amazon write services in lots of different languages. Just using a language is not enough proof, do you have examples of major services written in functional languages at these enterprise companies?

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Re:Clojure 2014 Year in Review by erichmond on Friday January 02, 2015 @06:35PM (#8829181)

Agreed there need to be "more" wins, but the amazon service seems like a pretty big one.

From: https://lispjobs.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/clojure-software-d...

CORTEX is our next generation platform that handles real-time financial data flows and notifications. Our stateless event-driven compute engine for dynamic data transforms is built entirely in Clojure and is crucial to our ability to provide a highly agile response to financial events. We leverage AWS to operate on a massive scale and meet high-availability, low-latency SLAs.

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