This case study from Roomkey.com is a awesome starting place for a conversation:
http://www.colinsteele.org/post/23103789647/against-the-grain-aws-clojure-startup http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in-7-months-using-clojure-and-aws Timothy On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Mike Haney <txmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you considered node.js? It's fantastic for building web services, > very easy to deploy (Heroku), and should scale well enough that most > startups won't outgrow it (and if you do, that's a very good problem to > have). > > You can still build your app using Clojurescript, either for the entire > thing, or just in areas where it makes the most sense, which would probably > be more palatable for your investors and other business types. > > The thing is, most developers would probably rather use something like > Clojurescript once they learn it, compared to writing raw JavaScript, so > that would actually aid your adoption. > > Framing the choice as PHP vs Clojure makes it an all or nothing decision. > But shifting the discussion to the merits of node.js, you can easily > justify why it makes sense for your application. Then you can address the > JS vs CLJS issue, and even if you lose initially, you still have the > stealthy approach of using CLJS to solve a hairy problem in an isolated > part of your app, then leveraging that to revisit the merits of using it on > a larger scale. > > -- > 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. > -- "One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that-lacking zero-they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." (Robert Firth) -- 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.
