I think that because of Clojure's resistance to heavy-weight frameworks, you won't necessarily see a "killer app" in the way Rails was for Ruby.
I think the killer feature of Clojure is the sum of its parts. At first glance it's hard to immediately see the value, but once you start plugging together reliable components, taking advantage of the Java interop and tooling from Leiningen, the advantages begin to appear. This doesn't make it easy to advocate until you've first sold your audience on the value of Clojure principles: functional, simple, immutable. On 04/20/2014 12:15 AM, Paulo Suzart wrote: > Hi all, (warning, this is kinda confusing email) > > Been following the list for some time and specially paying attention to > what could be the killer clojure app as Akka is for Scala. > > I keep seeing small libs (I like libs) popping up like ants, but I don't > believe none of them (alone at least) can make clojure explode and become > main technology in a old school /ordinary company. > > People say clojure is good for data. But where are the cases? And more > specifically, where are the frameworks and libs to support it? Are they > talking about wrappers around java for Hadoop? Sigh... > > Pulsar is quite dead, core async isn't clear regarding remoting, and avout? > And lamina? And aleph? Where are the tools that can make clojure to cover > from Web to big data and batch? > > Luminous, caribou, etc, are they going to become the next grails? Huumm.. > Will take lot of time. Clojure Script alone will not go any further than > the current server side. > > What made me give up scala was Scalaz, and I hope the "create thousand > disconnected libs and publish a post with ANN sufix" approach doesn't make > me give up clojure. > > Sorry guys, I've been posting about Clojure since 2009, and still can't see > it becoming the main technology even being the CTO of the company. > > What is the killer app for you? Or how do you think we can make clojure > supporting apps like Facebook or something big like that? > -- 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.
