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by StavrosK
3768 days ago
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I had the same experience as you. Django (and RoR, I guess?) blows everything else I've tried out of the water in terms of ecosystem, and Python is a joy to program in. Go is fantastic when I want either a small service or a script that I want to deploy as a single executable and have it be reasonably fast, but I find Python much easier to write in. However, that may be because I'm more familiar with Python. How did you like Clojure? Does the ecosystem it compare well against Django? I tried it once during an on-site interview but was put off by the multi-minute startup times. |
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So, comparing the languages, I tried Clojure because a colleague was using it and to me it feels like the best language I have ever used professionally (comparing to C#, C, Obj-C, Python, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Go) and I'm very happy using it. Great functional programming features, great libraries, I really like the LISP syntax and the stress I'd been having with Python kind of melted away (things like state in objects and the type system (which kind of doesn't really exist most of the time with Clojure)).
In terms of doing web type things, the Liberator and Ring libraries feel a lot like a big chunk of Django's routing and middleware functionality. Selmer does a good job of templating.
For most user interface work I'm using React.js (which I also really like) so my Clojure code is only serving up JSON on an HTTP API. But for simple templated HTML, Selmer works well.
One question is "Django is an entire framework. How does it compare to lots of little libraries?". I have to say that Django is probably the most well constructed pieces of software I have worked with and it hangs together very well. Clojure with a few libraries is very good, but beating Django is a very high bar to reach for any framework or group of libraries.
Startup time is an over-done argument. Once you're running a REPL you don't need to restart it, so development isn't slowed down. Once you're running a server you don't need to restart it, so production isn't slowed down.