Sean,
Oops I didn't realize you were asking these questions:
- What are you building?
- An application for businesses to help leverage the power of crowds
in non-traditional "crowdsource" environments.
- The main use-case for many will be that of integration with-in
their own applications and I suspect the application will be more API
than
App centric. Sorry for being vague but I'm still learning too. I will
know more for sure when I actually have the meeting with the founders.
- Why do _you_ think Clojure is a better choice than PHP?
- Due to the limited number of developers (just me initially) I think
Clojure presents a tool chain that is familiar and fast. Dynamic
programming in a highly iterative development environment means that I
can
solve challenges that the business will face rather than challenges
presented by the programming language.
- Clojure is to programming what Lean\Agility are to business
process
- Wanting to work with a set of tools also goes a long way toward
dealing with the other hardships of an early stage company. If I'm
making
less money and failure is a big part of the equation I want to enjoy
what
I'm doing. I think future hires would agree.
- The heavy amounts of text we will deal with is much easier to
handle with the JVM than with PHP. PHP support for UTF-* is fairly bad
(compared to Golang or Clojure) and I have had enough personal trouble
with
it.
- Again though we are not "Big Data" the first processing bottleneck
will likely be dealing with large quantities of text. This is something
that Clojure and the JVM have a lot more options for dealing with.
- The JVM platform means that when it comes time to optimize for
performance we have options rather than an app rewrite.
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