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1. alan@mastodon.technology's status on Saturday, 22-Dec-2018 20:56:26 CET alan

   • ☆ Dmitri ☭

   @yogthos exactly, but many developers are used to the Java, Python and JavaScript ecosystem where there are many "broken" things.

   The other day a coworker was using etaoin (https://github.com/igrishaev/etaoin) and he asked me for a replacement because he couldn't find anything about using a proxy, so I told him: "Look at the code". He is new to Clojure, but in 20 minutes he found a perfectly fine solution and prepared a pull request.

   I challenge anyone after just a couple of Python or Java projects to do the same

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   • ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Dec-2018 21:05:42 CET ☆ Dmitri ☭

     in reply to

     @alan yup, I worked with Java for around a decade and I was never able to contribute to a single library. Every time I'd find a bug or a feature I needed, I'd open the code and quickly nope out of it.

     With Clojure, I can quickly figure out what a library does just by reading the code and trying things in the REPL most of the time.

     The fact that this sort of thing isn't expected says a lot about our industry and general software development practices in my opinion.

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   • Esteban Manchado Velázquez (estebanm@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Dec-2018 21:25:15 CET Esteban Manchado Velázquez

     in reply to

     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
     • ☆ Dmitri ☭

     @yogthos @ekaitz_zarraga @alan "quickly nope out of it" ♥️

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