Some Observations: We took on a relatively inexperienced java developer, threw her into emacs, gave her 'Joy of Clojure', and she was able to make contributions within a month or two.
It doesn't have to be Clojure-everything, maybe PHP would be a great fit for the front-end web/templating based on the experience pool, and Clojure could be used for backend web services where it can give the most bang for the buck. Clojure also means 'the JVM', so you open yourself up to that talent pool and large array of solutions: hadoop, storm, for example. Depending on your use-cases, you might need this flexibility eventually. Having deployment and dev experience on this platform from the get-go means you'll be ready when you need it. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Jarrod Swart <jcsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm about to be an early employee at a small startup. > > I will be the first technical hire and am a competent but not > extraordinarily experienced developer. The founders know this and hired me > based on soft as well as technical skills. > > I don't want to be the first technical employee and make a poor technology > choice that chains this startup from the beginning. > > My goal is to convince the CEO and other early stage executives of the > benefits of using Clojure in place of PHP. All the early founders have > worked in places that use PHP, and I have worked as a PHP developer with > some of them at other companies. For the past year I have used Clojure in > my personal projects and am comfortable with the language. > > I expect the following objections: > > * What is the talent pool like (for Clojure) and can we outsource less > important tasks to other developers. > * What advantages does this technology offer over something like PHP (from > a business perspective)? > * How will you cope with technical challenges? > > I have my own opinions but I would love to hear the feedback of others. > If you have good counter arguments to these or other objections you have > heard in the past I would like to hear those. If you have been in my > position I would love to hear about that experience as well. > > Also consider that these people are technical but not programmers. Any > benefits have to make sense from a business perspective as well. > > Thank you for your help! > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
