On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 01:47:17PM -0700, Raoul Duke wrote: > I am writing to ignorantly sincerely ask how spec + Orchestra compares to > other statically typed out of the box JVM languages. What are the succint > wins over not Scala shudder but eg Kotlin Ceylon, heck Frege, et. al.?
clojure.spec validates data at run-time. spec's instrumentation, and thus Orchestra's, checks function arguments, return values, etc _when the function is called_, not during AOT compilation. In contrast, a static type system would catch theses errors before the program itself even runs. In my opinion, clojure.spec + Orchestra still falls quite short of a static type system, but it's the best setup I've seen for automated data validation as it moves through all parts of your Clojure programs. Even in languages with static type systems (C++, even), you almost certainly won't get automatic validation of the data, for each function call, return, etc, given only a declarative spec. In that way, clojure.spec alone provides something of great value. Aside from that, you're talking about the gains of Clojure versus all of those languages you listed. That's not related to Orchestra and would likely be better answered by people more knowledgeable than me. -- 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.
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