No one really needs a perfection (approaching perfection) of the great languages. I'm using it on my current project because I'm working alone, and in keeping it small and focused, I have no plan to change that. Does the language support string interpolation? Many people, for example, think that, in Python, whitespace as a block delimiter is a bad idea, however I never had any problem with that, it was just fine. >> Someone asked if their were any Clojure failure stories. Is it dying? But I don't think it's broad enough (I realise it doesn't aim to be) to usefully capture enough mindshare that Clojure is a first-class citizen in the numerical computing space. So if there is anything hurting Clojure I believe it is the increased uptake of languages with much better type systems than in the past (Scala, Swift, Rust, and even Go). Quantity is only one aspect. I like Emacs, what i don't like is the key combinations, which are horrible. Leiningen war plugin. But seeing the incredible power of emacs and the ease of integrating vim with it (pretty much a "pick your style" at the beginning of spacemacs installation) I'll never go back. That means both community, outreach, documentation as well a technical foundation. Compared to what? With the Google Closure compiler now running on top of JS, there would seem to be a path for the CLJS(not clj) tooling to become more JS ecosystem friendly. [23][24][15] While its type system is entirely dynamic, recent efforts have also sought the implementation of gradual typing. deftype and defprotocol define dynamic behavior in Clojure. [36], Clojure's name, according to Hickey, is a pun on the programming concept "closure" incorporating the letters C, L, and J for C#, Lisp, and Java respectively—three languages which had a major influence on Clojure's design. Since CLJ and CLJS are tied in this regard, I still think the startup time is the only differentiable factor in my proposed hypothetical future. I feel that Rich Hickey alone makes the Clojure community very healthy, friendly and warm. Among other things this means that type annotations are not required for code to run. Ruby works great on that for me, every version, every gem. You can argue that, without extremely simple syntax, a Lisp language is not possible. So my recommendation if you want to build programming language community - copy what Elixir did and it will be a good start. Clojure was designed to make a certain kind of software easier to write. And here I say it, “Java is not dead!” What do you mean Paul? Clojure's hash map, just like hash tables and dictionaries in many other languages, has a mechanism to iterate through the entire collection. CoffeeScript. [17][18] Like other Lisp dialects, Clojure treats code as data and has a Lisp macro system. Seriously, get over your Emacs hate (if you have any) because Emacs is to Lisp family languages what IntelliJ is to Java. I just really hate reading and writing lisp code. Clojure is designed around a few principles that are rooted in a clear philosophical understanding of simplicity. There's nothing preventing you from manually doing that when you type the code, but editors and pretty-printers won't know about it. These are very basic questions, but enou… --main invokes a Clojure function, in this case cljs.main. Dim the parens in your editor. In Clojure, you do not need (and should not) restart JVM to run unit tests. Yea...really wish Perl6 was more polished now. Special-casing them to have "if the car of a list is cond, or this vector was preceded by let, ..., then every second element gets extra indentation if it's on a different line" vs just using the regular list formatting rules just squicks me. ClojureScript excels when writing frontend UIs, in my opinion. It's fun. It's a different example of developer happiness. https://everything2.com/title/BSD+is+dying. It's not really clear to me why, but lisps keep trying and keep dying. Going further, it seems like the whole category of alternative languages hit a peak about three years ago, and interest has been dwindling since. I quit using clojure because (i) no C/C++ FFI, (ii) lack of strong type system, and (iii) horrific startup times (although clojure itself is fast, its startup time is not fast). There is something missing in the "simple vs. easy" argument. "I'm an artist, and if you give me a tuba, I'll bring you something out of it” - John Lennon. Ultimately the sheer real-world prevalence of Java might make my original gripe irrelevant. ;). The libraries use the same patterns, re-frame is a nicer, more succinct abstraction over react-redux. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. I feel like Clojure is more of a language that just happens to exist in the same package ecosystem as Java, and which offers a good syntax for fluently. There are so many good ideas in Reagent and Re-Frame. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the industry can rip Clojure from my cold, dead hands. But I'd consider making a new MY-LET macro because I don't like what the built-in LET looked like to be a bit gauche. Fortunately, you can redefine them. Is this dead code or otherwise not supported? It doesn't have literal syntax for hash tables, but it's a trivial read-macro if you can't live without it (although alists have some other nice properties like easy shadowing/popping of bindings, and the kind of associations you would want to write as literals are generally small enough that their O(n) lookup isn't a problem). I hear this a lot from the clojure community... but I think it's a missed attempt to pivot off the JVM and have clojure be useful for more people on a more popular platform. I also like alternative music. Sun (now deceased) was the company to work for, and James Gossling was the coolest cat in the Silicon Valley. It provides built-in concurrency support via software transactional memory and asynchronous agents, and offers a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. Emacs is awesome, but making language design decisions based on Emacs (or any editor, for that matter) seems like it ought to be at best a non-goal. This is a dead and unsupported project. Other issues for me were the lack of two layers in the LET statement (i.e. Haven't seen Hy yet, thanks for pointing it out! How can Clojure be reduced to "a better way to write Java" when you can live quite happily in Clojureland without writing a line of Java or importing a Java library? As a functional language, emphasis is placed on recursion and higher-order functions instead of side-effect-based looping. Programming in a Lisp is like writing a prose. * Immutable types built-in for a fast React experience (immutable.js by default) Perhaps I can see if the #rdf channel on Clojure Slack can be woken up again.. As such, Clojure makes immutability a default in the language, and mutation is hard to achieve without planning and extra effort. Take a 10 million item list in elixir and 'change' (return a new) the 5 millionth element. Well these are the hurdles that Clojure needs to get over. The JS is easier to read because it has an easier to parse structure. All the other common criticisms are shared by both CLJ and CLJS, so there's a chance that, eventually, CLJ only has the startup time as a knock against it, and CLJS has no such shortcomings. Lisp syntax, immutable data structures, laziness, all splendid. Java is actually … [111], Tooling for Clojure development has seen significant improvement over the years. +1 vote . I agree with you, Common Lisp does seem better and ABCL does well with Java interop (as does Clojure). As a former CL dabbler I didn't mind the square brackets in let but I really liked the use of them for vector and curly braces for map. Scala. Python is easier to learn. And macros are one of the most essential keys to Lisp's power. 1. Don't look for such an elaborate explanation, it's just the parentheses that set most JS programmers off. For this purpose, Clojure provides several mutable reference types, each having well-defined semantics for the transition between states. AFAIK, Rails pushed forward a lot of new ideas in web development and really brought Ruby into the mainstream. Rich Hickey was nominated for deletion. Now that I've spent enough time on it I'd very much like to use it for the rest of my career. IIRC, when Lisp was a leading language for "AI", it was specifically a leading language for expert systems, not ML. Most people will never like it. In all seriousness, I think that package managers play a big role in the success of modern languages, espcially if the package managers are there from the beginning. The way we do it now - with numeric-heavy techniques - isn't so much or, at least, isn't that much better than Python/scikit-learn. You see them interact and learn, and ask for help and you think as a new comer "Right on, I want to hang out with these people". the only reason i didn't like spacemacs was the 3 keystroke combos for everything that I do with 2 strokes in vim. Everyone can tell your language is easy or not; although there is no single criteria of what is easy, it's still possible to come up with something that many people agree are easy. OTOH to non-lispers it probably looked better, so maybe that was the goal. Clojure, and lisp in general, tends to avoid the "framework" way of thinking prevalent among object-oriented languages. But I do like Clojurescript. Clojure like all Lisp is not dead or dying, it's not just for everyone, and that's fine. Minus the arity error, 1-argument * is an identity. Looking back to it, it seems like a stupid cargo cult effect, but Rails is the main reason I switched to the Mac since then. all on offer, and with static types to boot. There will always be room in the market for trendy, abstracted languages like Assembly that provide simple syntax and garbage collection to sort memory management. Just like Elixir still requires you to understand BEAM and OTP primitives, or Rust still requires you to understand the "C Abstract Machine" and (usually) POSIX primitives. Going by that comparison, I would think it'd be hard for Clojure to really catch on without a revolutionary framework that you need it to work with, which may be tough to pull off considering that it's all on the JVM. Maybe that's just me and there are lots of new valuable stuff, but in a way it's hard to top cljs, core.logic, datalog in terms of brain wow. I mean if it works for you, do it. [56] Clojure supports multimethods[57] and for interface-like abstractions has a protocol[58] based polymorphism and data type system using records,[59] providing high-performance and dynamic polymorphism designed to avoid the expression problem. [3] rapid prototypes land as production systems - that's a pro tip. With Clojurescript, Hy and Clojure you can use Clojure syntax in all 3 major layers: front-end, scripting and compiled/back-end. But I am still a bit skittish of Clojure (JVM). I am beginner to Clojuresript/Clojure. Seriously you can write javascript in clojurescript. Why would programming be any different? Common Lisp does have syntax for vectors, they're written #(1 2 3). I've never met enough Clojure developers that stuck with it long enough to move the meter to "massive uptick," so there isn't much of a down-slope relative to "alive." Software spends 90% of its life in maintenance. [17] Before Clojure, he developed dotLisp, a similar project based on the .NET platform,[28] and three earlier attempts to provide interoperability between Lisp and Java: a Java foreign language interface for Common Lisp (jfli),[29] A Foreign Object Interface for Lisp (FOIL),[30] and a Lisp-friendly interface to Java Servlets (Lisplets).[31]. I don’t have time to go into all the reasons I find Clojure intriguing, but it is worth mentioning that one of the reasons I love it is that it is a functional programming language that is faster than snakes on ice. (In the Rust case, [zero-overhead] interoperability with C code really was the paramount concern; but still, that's interoperability with existing C code, not the expectation that anyone would want to "take advantage of C" by writing hybrid Rust/C projects. Just follow the trend and keep making it easy to do whatever just became popular. Clojure's "killer feature" for me is the by-default persistent data structures. OCaml has Bucklescript, Haskell has GHCJS, Kotlin and Rust compile to JS, etc. In your opinion. It's very hard to write Clojure or even raw Java code as good at that as an easy Erlang program. Well, clojure is better designed than javascript, that's for sure. I think that only works for concrete things, so in OO that would read: objects can die, classes can't. For the JS developers out there, is this something that's of interest? This sounds petty but I actually have some rationalization for it. There must be what, 50 odd listed on https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu... ...but I mean, even if we accept that the things you say about clojurescript are true (and I don't agree that they are, but even if I did), the point I'm making is that it doesnt stand out from the crowd in terms of features. What I have thought the niche of Clojure and other languages like it are larger scale projects and established places that care about robustness and correctness. It helps if you're not used to them already. * built-in Google Closure Compiler for optimizing, (also with sourcemaps and devtools) When we started working on Java, Java was the IT thing. 4. Next I think is alt-transactions (blockchain). If not, it seems way over the top. Literally just 'lein new figwheel' and you've got a project ready for everything you mentioned with hot reloading ready to go. But there are only so many choices. I find myself moving to Assembly nowadays. And there's really no way that it could be anything other than a framework. Funnily enough Ruby is doing not too bad - according to contributions [1] it's at stable speed since 2008 (!) Once you got used to this, this was really pleasant to write and mutate code. If Clojure is to survive at all it will be among programming language dilettante dabblers. Is Java Dead? This notation would be shorter, perhaps more readable, and certainly in accord with cultural conventions in other parts of computer science and mathematics. [23][24][38][15], Clojure's approach to state is characterized by the concept of identities,[22] which are represented as a series of immutable states over time. To me the JVM is battle proven unreliable and fidgety to use. If you're using Rust, you probably want to be writing Rust, not C.). lots of us really appreciate JVM, and are not impressed at all by node, and especially its ecosystem. Not being snarky, just want to know what you'd recommend. But this is rather a common pattern. You have plugins without updates for like 2 years and working like it was updated recently. The holy grail for javascript exists in Clojurescript. You end up manipulating the "tree" of code vs the characters on a line. Clojure/Java have perfectly good linear algebra libraries but there's nothing about the language that specifically lends itself to solving these problems. Front page rank #22 (after 18hs) with 208 points and 192 comments on HN on a dying language. I guess in the US there is/was an assumption that everyone coming out of the computing education system is already experienced with Java. I was one of them. Also Common Lisp is better in every way ;) There's even a JVM implementation (ABCL) for people who like that sort of stuff. I first learned about it while moaning about Incanter in previous Clojure threads! The system was designed to facilitate experiments with a proposed system called the Advice Taker, whereby a machine could be instructed to handle declarative as well as imperative sentences and could exhibit ``common sense'' in carrying out its instructions. This means that the IDE can 'understand' any part of your code, not just big constructs like functions, methods or classes. Thanks to their license model, lots of companies make use of BSD on their hardware and seldom give anything back. What's interesting is that for me Clojure was my first lisp. With advances in the Google Closure compiler, it's getting better and better. Plus it's sort of a toolkit to be used in many different ways. And that's fine by me. It was built from the ground up to be an awesome language for concurrency, and it's STM system is fantastic. It has excellent tooling. Dragan has an excellent platform for Bayesian Data Analysis: There is no direct replacement, because there are different libraries tackling different aspects of what you may need: high performance computations, data munging, distribution, probability stuff, ML, deep learning etc. Despite many attempts and great theoretical underpinning Lisp failed to take hold. Clojure is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent comprehensive programming languages survey. types - why - is clojure dead 2018 ... Clojure has some interesting features for representing types including but not limited to deftype, defprotocol, reify and extend. This post is like reading a CNN kind of site which posts latest "what we know so far" every few minutes about some breaking news :). As far as I'm aware, there's no Clojure implementation. Or rather, the market for UNIX (including Linux) servers expanded quite a lot, but BSD (basically FreeBSD and co) didn't rise as much. Because the JVM is faster than all of the above. They allow the following advantages: This is more an emotional response to me than it is functional or logical one since you can apply all of these points to any other language. I have to convert from and to JS. A good Clojurescript book. [66][67][68], The primary platform of Clojure is Java,[18][52] but other target implementations exist. Push with Leiningen $ lein deploy clojars Push with Boot (using bootlaces) $ boot … Skip to content. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see … Now of course some FP languages have operators to (Haskell, F#) to allow left to right function application and you could of course make macros in Lisp in whole it doesn't really fix the problem entirely. I've been coding in clojure for several years now. The point is that most server languages these days compile to javascript. At one point, a couple of decades back, it was more head-to-head with Linux, while no does anybody think they're even in the same order of magnitude? Lisp (and Clojure) is still great for exploratory programming (Python too, but Lisp allows you to dive deeper). We use clojurescript and ES6 in production. Because there is no parenthesis problem; there's a newb problem. Clojure's design decisions do result in an amazingly productive language. I don't want to go into detail, but I've definitely gotten more SOS calls than I care to count. And it's not good enough that Python fails because R and Julia are competing with Python. I dunno, guess some people's brains maybe just not suited. > A programming system called LISP (for LISt Processor) has been developed for the IBM 704 computer by the Artificial Intelligence group at M.I.T. Due to this syntax, the IDEs can "understand" expressions and expressions within expressions. clojure/general. It can be done with most source code editors -- Even a simple program like Notepad++ can do it, Visual Studio Code can do it, etc. * built-in tree-shaking (only import what you use) from Google Closure Compiler > The JVM just feels slow and cumbersome compared to what I'm used to (Node.js, Erlang/Elixir, Python). That indeed was a complete turn-off. The very same pattern. Can't stress that enough. This through decades and generations of programmers. Well at the moment, the tooling is all lein/JVM based. Clojurescript's benefits are so much more than the language. When you first started to learn C style syntax, it was likely just as confusing. There are homoiconic languages like Prolog and Julia that have more familiar syntax styles, but S-Expression Lisps are unmatched in making homiconicity readily apparent. I'm already playing around with Elixir (loving it), wanna try out Rust's zero-cost everythings, and have finally finishing learning Haskell on my back burner. While traditionally these functions operate on sequences, transducers allow them to work on channels and let the user define their own models for transduction. 5 years ago it was the same applicants as today, only minus Go and Rust. A lot. Your uberjar will contain clojure.main, so it is quite possible (and useful) to run the REPL in your uberjar (java -cp my-whole-app.jar clojure.main). Doesn't make any sense as Rich makes a big point of having wasted years writing large applications in Java and C++ before discovering Lisp and FP. A bit more seriously (which does not mean than anything in the previous paragraph is less true) the Java ecosystem has been grossly oversold from the very beginning, and even Rich himself has been converted (I still remember how I spat when I listened to his praise for Java as the best target platform in his very first marketing videos). It runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine, and takes great advantage of the very, very, very fast VM hiding under bloated Java. Clojurescript, while interesting, is a dime-a-dozen with Elm, Purescript, Scala.js, Typescript, etc. The Java Virtual Machine, or JVM. Besides, wouldn't a source based system be far more integrated in the web or a new web or some non-corporate-behemoth oriented community (how many sports channels you want?) Transpiler technical benefits. Thanks for educating me :-). Sure, your … I switched to Ubuntu instead and I'm still there. It may have past the (or a local) hype peak, but it seems to be doing just fine. Evolving easy languages is also not hard. Also super easy hot reloading with figwheel. As a JS programmer with some Clojure experience I can confirm that the JVM is absolutely the biggest turn-off for me personally. If I write Perl, only I can understand it...and even that is temporary lol (I joke, but you get the point). Dart came in dead last in terms of the number of companies using it in their stacks. While not on the list above, there are certainly others like Opal (Ruby in js), I've used Opal for client-side validation of a server-side game's rules. Well yes, in theory, but it's generally considered in somewhat bad taste to replace fundamental basics of the language. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. The tooling is the best. Elm. Designing an "easy" language is easy because you can usually resort to human intuitions, yours or somebody's else. For your second example, your JavaScript is wrong. It isn't only suited to certain niches, … The discussion was closed on 27 July 2011 with a consensus to merge.Its contents were merged into Clojure.The original page is now a redirect to this page. It's not emotional, no. But I think it's helpful to think the two dimensions in this way. Personally I love the immutability anyway, and there's no denying those extra cores are _there_. Personally, I love Clojure, but I never considered it practical for any team that is larger than a handful of developers, and it is certainly not safe for every developer to use. I think they were serious. Instead, you need to carefully think about the natures of the new requirements, challenge the assumptions underneath the original design, and restructure your design. [1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0_lcrx4,%2... Clojurescript and Scala.js are probably the most mature, but getting developers to make the switch when their server language is not Clojure or Scala is an uphill battle. While Google, Wrike, Workiva, and Blossom use Dart, there doesn’t seem to be a large number of jobs for Dart developers. For me, there are a number of ideas in Clojure that I think are wonderful. What's the most idiomatic Clojure way to write this? The JVM is solid, reliable and battle proven, is it not? For example; newcomers to Clojure think that the contains? > Elm, Elixir, JavaScript, seem to be better at prioritizing the humanistic aspect. I suspect one current thing hurting adoption from the JS community is the very heavy JVM based tooling. you can straight up import es6 jsx javascript into your clojurescript code. Stian Soiland-Reyes. Or are you joking too? Then, you use Clojure to write better Java.". I don't understand: why can't you add a newsline andan indent? So, a keynote on conference about a dying language has mentioned that another, unrelated language is dying. BSD is indeed not what it used to be. [21], Clojure advocates immutability and immutable data structures and encourages programmers to be explicit about managing identity and its states. Shouldn't be met with a lack of interest? As soon as I saw Clojure, I knew that my setup would unavoidably get twice as complicated because they added another delimiter that's used in random places in the code. Pulsar. Figwheel is hot reload that never goes down, devcards is revolutionary, and a browser repl for live in editor evaluation... > significantly different from the existing javascript code base you already have. Things are looking very bad for Clojure As many of us are already aware, Clojure continues to lose market share. On the JVM, java sucks, but your choices are limited; what, maybe groovy, kotlin, scale, clojure? There are, however, libraries and patterns which are very common, ring for example. The popular crap to get shit done for a paycheck (Java, Javascript, Ruby you name it) is what is in demand. Agreed. popular - is clojure dead . I have not seen a learnability comparison between Python and Clojure as first languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WMga5E7Vsk. Is java still the same thing? login; register; Clojars is a dead easy community repository for open source Clojure libraries. - sob -. Javascript is pretty slow as it is, and clojurescript is even slower. It is efficient to develop new functionality. This currently doesn't seem to be very effective for ClojureScript. All the rails screencasts I saw featured TextMate, on a Mac. In 2014 this number had increased to 55%,[73] in 2015, based on 2,445 respondents, to 66%. Are there any other functional languages out there with similar features? [37], Rich Hickey developed Clojure because he wanted a modern Lisp for functional programming, symbiotic with the established Java platform, and designed for concurrency. [33] Anyone can submit issues and ideas at ask.clojure.org,[34] but to contribute patches, one must sign the Clojure Contributor agreement. That combined with standing on a solid, reliable, battle proven platform (Erlang's BEAM VM) makes for a powerful combination. Really, really simple. Makes the code way more regular. A lot of little things that are hard in other languages are easier in LISP, which results in you writing the code yourself instead of pulling in a library some else wrote. Another reason Lisp programmers tolerate parentheses hell is that Lisp development has often paralleled that of emacs and emacs-like editors that make manipulating s-expressions extremely intuitive. However, one must remember that Clojure is a general purpose language. I'll plug Parinfer as the best tool I've found for removing the pain of editing s-expressions. As far as I'm aware Clojure was the only attempt at a LISP where a package manager was included from the beginning. Ruby works fine on Windows, until you hit a gem version that doesn't build. I'm currently building a side project with it. “What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.” -- Albert Einstein. General Clojure-related discussion. Yesterday i explained Lisp's syntax to a friend, in 3 minutes. The few times I have, they make sense. You don't choose ClojureScript or Scala.js haphazardly, you're. Good for sharing scripts on my team. As such, Clojure makes immutability a default in the language, and mutation is hard to achieve without planning and extra effort. It's unfortunate that people in this thread seem to down on the language, but the only possible way I would stop using it is if I literally cannot earn income with it. Embed Embed this gist in your website. It's a 1-argument function, so applying it to 2 arguments would give an error. Yes, I know there is Chicken Scheme and Guile. I think the "killer app" that Clojure needs is that it should be compilable into C/C++ with the same great interop it has with Java. Parentheses also enable IDEs to automatically apply "pretty" format to the code rather easily. Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it? S-Expressions were originally an intermediate form for a more algol-like syntax[0], but became the primary form of representing Lisp because allowing the programmer to manipulate the AST is extremely useful, arguably what makes Lisp Lisp. Or is the existing tooling(lein) good enough? That being said I think out of all the dynamic languages Lisp, and thus Clojure are the best. The current development process is community-driven, overseen by Rich Hickey as its benevolent dictator for life (BDFL). The precedence of operators is obvious by looking at the code. So I don't have a reasonable doubt when I say "Clojure will take not the machine learning niche from Python.". Nice to see the nod to Larry Wall's excellent talk on postmodern languages. Clojure is a modern, dynamic, and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform. Yes. Like other Lisp dialects, Clojure treats code as data and has a Lisp macro system. Structure and ability to mentally parse out patterns matters too. And yeah WASM is looking pretty promising (threads/gc/efficiency), and a CLJ like language that targets it directly would be so interesting for the very long term future. I think Clojurescript might be the thing. [1] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors, [2] https://github.com/rails/rails/graphs/contributors. 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