Interview with Clojure-Loving Dan Hammer about Open Source Deforestation Project

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" The process of converting long, tangled scripts into a composition of functions was totally consistent with writing proofs in upper-level math courses, like real analysis or topology. Mapping concepts in functional programming to axioms in functional composition continues to guide development in my projects – and the mapping helps me reason out some of the more esoteric elements of Clojure."

Interesting that Farmlogs came to this exact conclusion. Read through the requirements for back-end engineer: https://www.farmlogs.com/jobs/backend-engineer/

"We maintained our Clojure project for almost a year until it became clear that the project couldn’t be actively maintained by the deforestation monitoring (read: remote sensing) community. We are rewriting the code once again in JavaScript for general use and maintenance — which is sort of heartbreaking. I’m no good at writing poetry."

Why isn't there a greater up-takeup of Clojure?

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