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by cmrdporcupine
233 days ago
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I frankly miss the JVM. I work almost exclusively in Rust these days and haven't worked in Java or Scala since 15 years ago, and I do prefer working closer to the metal.... But... The JVM is an amazing mature runtime with a boatload of tooling. JMX, which has been there since almost the beginning, is the kind of thing missing from almost everything other managed runtime I've worked with. The amount of R&D that has gone into making it execute with good performance, and its overall stability... Yeah, it's got the curse of being boring. I do think it is perhaps unfortunate that Clojure is tied so heavily to the JVM, because I actually don't think it gains much from that ecosystem... but it's a product of the time it was first written. Actually hell. I'm between jobs, I like Lisp, and I miss the JVM. I've never worked in Clojure, but does anybody want to hire me to work in it? :-) |
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When I was doing more Clojure, I loved that it was on the JVM because it meant I got to use every Java library under the sun. There are tons of battle tested Java libraries that didn't have to be rewritten in Clojure, and getting to use them for approximately zero financial and runtime cost was a HUGE benefit of Clojure compared to other niche FP languages.