To my knowledge Clojure has not yet been ported to LCARS[1]. This clearly disqualifies it from being used in the Enterprise.
Phil [1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCARS On Jul 9, 2011 1:29 AM, "MarkH" <markhanif...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- 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
