1. Have you written, or are you writing, a web application that uses
Clojure? What does it do?
I am new to Clojure, I've ported over most of my code for an ad-hoc
application creator / with reporting and GIS integration.
I'm pretty much finished. I benchmarking speed.
2. Which libraries or frameworks are you using? Which versions?
My own custom frameworks. I use some contrib stuff.
3. What made you choose Clojure to develop web applications in? What
are the strengths of Clojure web development?
Strengths:
* Allows for creating succinct code to manage complex data.
* Access to many libraries (that are current and active).
* Not forced to include BS code for OO abstractions.
Weakness:
REPL errors. Seems fragile. If I hit an error, some errors corrupt
something under the hood,
ie. reloading the corrections doesn't help I have to close the REPL
then restart.
I'm familiar with REPLs - This is odd, but it's probably a JVM issue.
4. What do you think are the current weaknesses of web development in
Clojure? What could be improved?
Nothing big yet.
5. Anything else you want to comment on?
Only one week into Clojure I could be too green, but:
I would like some chaining to less the brackets.
i.e.
> (def stuff {:key1 {:item1 {:sub1 val1}})
> (((stuff :key1) :item1) sub1) <------- YUCK
val1
Instead do this:
> stuff:key1:item1:sub1
val1
Also, some of the function names don't make sense:
(def stuff (list 1 2 3 4 5))
> (rest stuff)
(2 3 4 5)
> (next stuff)
(2 3 4 5) <---- this can be done with rest.
In my mind 'next' should:
> (next stuff)
2
> (next 2 stuff)
(2 3)
etc etc......
Tim
On Jun 23, 3:23 pm, James Reeves <weavejes...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello there!
>
> Chas Emerick's recent "State of Clojure" survey [http://bit.ly/dtdAwb]
> indicated that a significant proportion of Clojure users are beginning
> to use Clojure for web development. A recent Hacker News posting
> [http://bit.ly/91Bu5J] seems to corroborate these results, with
> several Clojure-based web applications already out in the wild.
>
> As one of the main developers of Ring and Compojure, I'd be very
> interested to hear more about how people are using Clojure to build
> web apps. To this end, I have a few questions I'd like to quiz Clojure
> web developers about:
>
> 1. Have you written, or are you writing, a web application that uses
> Clojure? What does it do?
>
> 2. Which libraries or frameworks are you using? Which versions?
>
> 3. What made you choose Clojure to develop web applications in? What
> are the strengths of Clojure web development?
>
> 4. What do you think are the current weaknesses of web development in
> Clojure? What could be improved?
>
> 5. Anything else you want to comment on?
>
> Please reply to this thread with your answers, and thank you very much
> in advance for your time. I really appreciate any feedback you can
> provide.
>
> - James
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