Hey guys, I hope this isn't inappropriate (?) - thought it might be interesting to some.
I've just opened the doors on an early release of a Clojure-based web application I've been working on for a while now: www.wusoup.com. The entire thing is Clojure: front- and back-ends. About 14,000 lines of code right now, but it's very general: about half of that is just architectural stuff. Am using MongoDB for persistence. Presentation is handled with Ring+Compojure+Hiccup, which has been a pleasure to use. The route syntax is great, as is the whole functional paradigm: middleware for example, has let me do fairly complicated things like localization very, very easily. It's also let me keep the back-end exceptionally simple. Wusoup's a meeting site (probably closest to compare to dating) - but the matching is (well, will be) done via cluster analysis on user behaviour (interactions), so the approach is a little unusual. The whole thing reduced very well to a set of cascading map- reductions, which Clojure obviously handled beautifully. I didn't spend much time thinking about other approaches, but I wouldn't be surprised if I'd have needed to pick up 20-30% extra code using something else besides Clojure. And I'm sure I'd have lost a great deal of the simplicity at the same time. Even going with another functional language, I think, would still not have paid off the same way: the entire sequence abstraction has just been so comfortable and well thought out. Then there's working on a live server through a remote Swank REPL... Anyway, there's no one on it right now: this isn't my field (I'm not really a developer), and I don't have any network to rely on to get the first signups. In any case, I'm hoping the general idea will already show through. Am happy to answer questions if you have any and there's a blog attached in case anyone's curious to follow (link at homepage). I'm way-far from being an expert, but I'll be writing frankly about my experiences with the whole project, so hopefully it'll be interesting if nothing else :) No idea if anything will come of it, but just wanted to say that the whole project wouldn't have been feasible for me to even try, without Clojure. Thank you Rich, and the rest of the community: I think you're all working on something really amazing. -- 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
