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midnight_eclairtoday at 1:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

clojure itself is a joy to use, on the web or outside of it

BUT

it doesn't have the equivalent of rails, mostly because lispers are an opinionated bunch and can't come together to agree on how web development should be done

the frameworks that do exist are more of a collections of libraries with some plumbing to connect the dots


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embedding-shapetoday at 2:51 PM

Which in reality isn't a problem, once you absorb the ideas of Clojure and try to apply them when using Clojure. Composition of well picked libraries beat batteries-included frameworks for most use cases, both short term and long term, at least in 99% of the cases I'm writing Clojure/Script code.

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jimbokuntoday at 5:46 PM

Yes, huge selling point in favor of Clojure!

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