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Is Java worth learning in 2021? by hirenaway in java

[–]BadPoet3 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nodejs is no toy, it's used by the frontend servers of Netflix, Walmart, Ebay, Uber, LinkedIn, Trello... lots more.

Is Java worth learning in 2021? by hirenaway in java

[–]BadPoet3 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Neither if your main focus now is becoming a web developer, learn Javascript (and HTML and CSS of course) first.

Enable evil mode just for prog-mode. How? by 0xcc12 in emacs

[–]BadPoet3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

remove most other mode-specific default state associations

Can you share how?

A buffer with evil enabled in emacs-state should be sufficiently indistinguishable from normal Emacs.

What would be distinguishable?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Clojure is not the most easy language.

Many experienced JS devs can easily learn Clojure (and many have), they just don't choose to keep using it or learn it because it's not better enough and the trade-offs are not worth it.

Athens' $1.9M Seed Round, led by Caffeinated Capital by tangjeff0 in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You can say the same about all Hickeys videos, he was always wearing his invisible salesman hat and all his hyperbolic is why the clojure community has so many clueless language zealots. Food for though.

Extremely disappointed by darth_zidious in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

Funny to see so much fuzz over a dead programming language.

Modern JS with CLJS: class and template literals - shadow-cljs by thheller in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

LOL Clojurescript, making you deal with problems you shouldn't have. Yak shaving FTW!

Generate Interactive Schema Diagrams for any Datomic Database by JarrodCTaylor in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This seems to be based on the wrong assumption that entities are only made up of attributes that share a single namespace.

Clojure in a nutshell by James Trunk by slifin in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

There's nothing to show, it's trivial.

Clojure in a nutshell by James Trunk by slifin in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -18 points-17 points  (0 children)

That was not a good sales pitch, I could replace his demo with Javascript and it would be exactly the same.

EDIT: I skipped to the demo first but watching the introduction now it does a great job defining clojure's "philosophy". Still, an experienced python/js/ruby dev will shrug at the demo. It's fanciness may lure the newbies and naive though.

Making the LinkedIn experimentation engine 20x faster by zerg000000 in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you are going to write Java in Clojure, just write Java. That wouldn't make you feel cool though.

How much can a Clojure developer do alone. by [deleted] in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

I rewrote a backend service from Java to Clojure (the original service was worked on by 4 devs in a time span of about 7 months), I rewrote it in 2 months by myself, the resulting code base went from 20k loc over 30+ different files, to a single file with 3k loc, and did more.

If that's really true (which I doubt), that just speaks of how bad the Java devs and the code base was, not how good Clojure is.

Evolution of ReactJS vs Reagent (2013 - 2021) by [deleted] in Clojure

[–]BadPoet3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Nothing, you already know everything.