Hey Peter, Any plans of releasing the source? At least the Clojure part? Cheers Andreas
On 13/12/2010, at 2:50 AM, Peter T wrote: > 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 -- “There is a strong correlation between being smart and being a nerd, and an even stronger inverse correlation between being a nerd and being popular” (Paul Graham) -- ********************************************************** Andreas Koestler, Software Engineer Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd 270 Gladstone Road, Dutton Park QLD 4102 Main: +61 7 3891 9772 Direct: +61 7 3117 8808 Fax: +61 7 3891 9336 Email: andreas.koest...@leica-geosystems.com ************www.leica-geosystems.com************* when it has to be right, Leica Geosystems Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- 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
