This brings an interesting twist... I am used to build polyglot solutions, our project has been a mix of Java, Ruby and Clojure for a year and a half and prior to that I would mix languages in a project on the fly.
However I am not in a mood these days to sacrifice features available in Clojure to bend to other languages to comply with their poor feature set given the challenges we are facing in our domain. If you can own both ends, do it in Clojure exploiting all it's features and provide poor man's API to other languages as required. This may require implementing some custom front end logic within these APIs that have little to do with the internal representation used elsewhere. Being agnostic to do a "favor" to other languages maybe unavoidable in some situations but it may impact your design decisions, you could cripple your mental processes by avoiding using features not available in every language involved. Being polyglot was a necessity to me before Clojure/ClojureScript got most of the platforms covered. It's not to me an advantage anymore to write polyglot solutions. Reducing to common language features to me = dragging your feet on the rug while you could be running faster than Usain Bolt. Luc > Hi Luc, > > Le jeudi 22 août 2013 21:19:00 UTC+2, Luc a écrit : > > > > > > > > Metadata is part of the Clojure environment and part of the value domain > > > > it handles. > > Why should it not be transmitted along with the value ? > > > > If the receiver is not written in Clojure it may be questionable an > > > > probably not > > very useful to transmit it but otherwise ? > > > > All you're saying is right, as long as you own your data and communicate > > > between clojure programs, any "hack" is just particular design solution -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
