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by koito17 1062 days ago
> Is this production ready?

It's been worked on for several years AFAICT. It's only very recently that it got a public release, but it was built specifically for use in Hyperfiddle, the company of Dustin Getz (also the same person who developed Electric Clojure).

I am not sure what is a good way to determine whether something is production ready, but I know its developers have been dogfooding it for a while now. The only real problem I see is lack of other companies adopting it leading to nobody else wanting to try adopting it. The other big problem is that it's hard selling people Clojure either because it is a niche language or the parentheses scares people away.*

* Note I use Clojure in my day job. I do not think either of these two points are a valid excuse to not use Clojure, but they are the most common excuses I see.

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electric has been a team effort, developed primarily by Geoffrey, Peter and especially Leo of https://github.com/leonoel/missionary who is the lead developer.

the thing predating Electric is in prod at a series B startup, a series A startup is going live with a prod support app in a few weeks, and a seed stage startup is planning a rewrite of a consumer facing productivity tool onto electric after serious evaluation. Plus many serious POCs i’ve seen maybe 2-3 dozen repos this summer. (we only see them when they have a question)