When the businesses are Twitter, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and Netflix, I wouldn't really worry about it.
And seriously, the web story for Clojure is just fine. It's just componentized, it's not missing.
And seriously, the web story for Clojure is just fine. It's just componentized, it's not missing.
Are you talking about Scala or Clojure? I've only seen those names mentioned with their Scala use, what are some of their Clojure projects?
Netflix: they definitely use it for Hadoop stuff, probably elsewhere too. And from this presentation they do a fair bit of Java interop with it: https://speakerdeck.com/daveray/clojure-at-netflix
Twitter/BackType produced Apache Storm, which is written in Clojure.
Not sure about the Guardian, I should ask, but they're definitely using it.
> how awesome web frameworks are on this side of the grass
This is kind of the point he was trying to make, clojure really does not have any major webframeworks. Clojure just does web devlopment diffrently.
A hacker news comment is hardly the place for impressive writeups about web devlopment. There have been post like that in lots of blogs.
Also, I didn't ask to write about web development, merely share information/links like the other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8420463) did.
In fairness, there's a kernel of truth in that almost any article about Clojure seems to get uncritically upvoted, but that's another matter. The fact remains that Clojure, whilst not as popular as Scala, is nonetheless (quietly) in use at a lot of firms.
Some more examples: * CitiGroup EU FX derivatives is pure-Clojure * There's at least three different hedge funds using it. * Deutsche Bank are definitely using it too.