[mixedCase]

I believe fintech is mostly a functional hub. There's an above average amount of Haskell, F#, and Scala in it. Most of the Clojure influence I believe comes from Nubank initially starting out as a Clojure shop IIRC.

Unfortunately I also happen to not get paid to play around with languages, although I'm open to such a position if you know of any available one. I get paid to write robust software and to work with engineers that don't always have 10+ years of experience. I get paid to deal with requirements that change every bloody week because we have quick customer feedback, customers that are very vocal about wanting things a certain way and highly intolerant of software crapping the bed when they go and try their "super normal, and expectable" extreme edge case.

I've dealt with those cases across many languages across the years, and you could easily guess that I would be very desperate for the money if you find me in another job working in a dynamic language dealing with constant changes.

By the way, it's okay if you're not familiar with the concepts I brought up by name, but if you have worked with Rust, TypeScript, Haskell, Scala, Kotlin, PureScript, Elm, F#, Swift or one of many others, you're probably familiar with them. They're everyday tools to programmers using those languages, not some strange academic tool.

[lukashrb]

> I get paid to deal with requirements that change every bloody week because we have quick customer feedback

In my experience this is something where clojure is exceptionally good at.

[mixedCase]

It seems I have been very unlucky. Because mine was that hacks piled, and piled, and piled, and no one ever got back to them because we could just do something horrible with metadata and cond our way to no man's land, without any types serving as documentation for the mess that was being created.

[iLemming]

Yep, just like I said in the adjacent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30771964

[iLemming]

>I get paid to write robust software and to work with engineers that don't always have 10+ years of experience. ... > I've dealt with those cases across many languages across the years

I'm not trying to denigrate your experience, and I'm not pretending that we work in different industries and deal with very dissimilar problems. But if anything I learned from the years of writing software - there are no silver bullets. Every single tool has cons and pros. You can't just look at any instrument, framework, library, language through a tiny keyhole and make assumptions. And I'm not saying you have. Perhaps you have rich experience using Clojure that led you to the conclusions you made. From my perspective - I have the opposite of that. And again, it's not because I have not seen what you have. Clojure, in my opinion, compensates for the lack of static typing with a plethora of other features. Features that many other languages can't offer but are essential for me.