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Re:Visualizing Twitter Connections with D3 and ClojureScript by kahunamoore on Friday February 20, 2015 @04:42PM (#9083248)
That was also true of many languages early in the adoption curve. The difference is cljs is hosted on one of the most popular platforms on the planet, JavaScript, so it gets to play nicely (better?!) within that ecosystem.

When the boss asks "Why clojurescript?" You can say, "You don't like it? Ok, sure, I will throw away these twenty lines of cljs and replace them with JavaScript - that will take two hundred lines of fail and a week of debugging..." The resulting look is priceless... Did you know that the pointy hair looks the same whether it is coming towards you or walking away :-/

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Re:Visualizing Twitter Connections with D3 and ClojureScript by mattlutze on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @08:50AM (#9106676)
Take this with a wink and a nudge -- I'm likely to favor the javascript if its the case that you're my only developer who has mastery of cljs.

A few hours to rewrite your brilliantly concise bit of code is sometimes warranted to keep my technology stack easier-to-maintain from a personnel standpoint.

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