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by onyno 883 days ago
Lisp Flavoured Erlang (lfe.io) needs more love, from what I’ve seen and tried with it - it could give clojure a run for its money.
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zilti 883 days ago
It's really not hard to give Clojure that... I'm a full-time Clojure dev, but also use Scheme a lot, and while some Clojure features are great (mainly the STM), in a lot of cases the terribleness of certain language features and idioms makes me sigh. Lots of bad decisions have been made.
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harperlee 883 days ago
> (mainly the STM)

Interestingly the clojure community at large does not really value or use it so much. I think even Rich Hickey commented on that at some point.

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uxcolumbo 883 days ago
You mean lots of bad decision by the Clojure core team?

Do you have some examples and what language features are terrible?

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rokkitmensch 883 days ago
My pain points were the idiom of passing giant wads of data around in an unprincipled untyped fashion, and then rooting through them like a boar for nuts in the forest later.

"Write tests!" and "use spec" were not great suggestions at the end of the day.

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uxcolumbo 883 days ago
How so? Can you share more details?
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fredrikholm 883 days ago
I'm guessing that OP is stating that the BEAM is a more preferable VM to that of the JVM, and that they prefer a Lisp over Erlang/Elixir.
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