As a tech lead or architect you should be fired for even suggesting to use Clojure as an enterprise greenfield. Industry and academia is moving towards advanced type systems. Nobody in industry seriously considers Clojure for enterprise systems.
On Jul 8, 12:43 pm, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote: > *This isn't meant to start a flame-war!* > > I am pretty convinced that I want to use Clojure as my primary tool > (in place of Java/Groovy Spring and Hibernate) in writing Enterprise > applications on the JVM. By Enterprise I mean that my solution has to > be very stable, maintainable by others, subject to a number of stake- > holders and so on. > > Part of the attraction of Java is the set of well-established tools > for certain things: > > - maven/gradle/ant for building > - Spring for glue and a gazillion other things (disclaimer: I used to > work for them as a Consultant) > - Hibernate for ORM > - JUnit/TestNG > - and so on > > I am convinced that Clojure offers a different playing field in terms > of building blocks; due to its power it seems that there isn't the > need for such heavyweight players, rather rolling your own, or using > light-weigh libraries seems to possible. > > That is excellent news, but I need to start somewhere. > > So, what do other enterprise developers use? There are a gazillion > libraries out there but where do you start? For example (religious > war starts now): > > - cake seems to be a superset of lein but lein seems to be the > preferred choice - which should a newbie go with > - what behaviour driven testing (i.e. BDD) library would you use (for > integration tests) > - which unit testing framework do you use (lazy-test's watch method > is very appealing) > - which CI servers have you integrated Clojure with, and how? > - which other high quality libraries can you recommend (akin to > JodaTime) > > Basically, what supporting infrastructure do you guys use to build > large Clojure apps. > > I hope the gist of this request comes through - I, of course, should > try them all, but if recommendations are always welcome. -- 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
