[jcadam]

I did clojure as a hobbyist for years and have only recently taken a job where I'm working full time in Clojure on a large codebase (i.e., first time having to maintain somebody else's Clojure code). It's not a golden hammer by any means, but I'd definitely take it over Java (or Scala) any day.

[LesZedCB]

any experience with rails or django to compare with?

[hangonhn]

Not to be pedantic but you’re asking for a comparison of language vs. frameworks. Not sure if you’ll get a good answer to that.

That said, I’ve actually used Rails and Django in the past and written a small project in Clojure so I can try.

I actually really love Clojure and had really positive experiences wit Django though I’ve come to favor lighter frameworks like Starlette. Programming in Clojure is quite interesting because it’s functional programming so all the information you need to reason about the function is generally passed in as parameters. It made code comparatively easy to reason about simply by reading the code for the specific function. Clojure also has good support for REPL. I don’t have to do a lot of hunting around for “outside” code to understand what’s going on inside a function. This is the polar opposite of Java, especially when dealing with giant frameworks like Spring, where there is a lot of layers being combined just to do one thing. Coding in Java/Spring, Rails, and even Django can feel a lot like dealing with those nesting dolls.

Like the grandparent, I wish to do more with Clojure some day.

[jcadam]

Correct. I like ruby the language. Rails, not so much.

[LesZedCB]

sorry, i also use clojure for hobby projects and am familiar with clojure/repl/etc.

i guess i assumed that since this thread was about web frameworks that their large clojure code base was also a web application. though i see that isn't necessarily implied.