Hi Sean, Thanks for your reply. This is really helpful - I really like the look of the jdbc library! Much appreciated.
On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at 2:55:05 AM UTC, Sean Corfield wrote: > > > With the time we have (around 1 month for this stage), is this something > we can easily build in Clojure? > > Hard to say. I would expect a small team already familiar with Clojure > could probably build this in a month but I don’t know how long it’ll take > your team to ramp up. Java-to-Clojure is easy for some and extremely hard > for others. > > > Is the movement from Java to Clojure easy for someone completely new to > Clojure? > > See above. Familiarity with Java means the ecosystem and tooling (and > stacktraces) won’t cause you any problems, but at the same time, if your > developers are steeped in Java / OOP thinking, Clojure can be very > confusing at first (How do I encapsulate my data? How do I write a loop? > How do I handle state? Etc). > > > Are the libraries that we might use for this - I had a look at Ring > briefly robust for our use case? > > Yes, people are building solid production systems with Clojure all the > time. We’ve used Clojure in production for nearly seven years now and we’ve > been extremely happy with the stability of everything we’ve used. > > > Does Clojure have good support for using AWS for example? (You can call > Java from Clojure so I guess this wouldn't really be an issue.) > > It’ll depend on exactly what you plan to use from the vast AWS stable but, > in general, yes since as you observe, you can always drop down to Java. > > > Does it interface well with MySQL? > > Yes, we run a large MySQL-based production system in Clojure – and all our > JDBC access has been via Clojure for several years. Caveat: I maintain the > clojure.java.jdbc Contrib library, so I may be a little biased here ☺ > > Sean > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
