On Saturday, May 2, 2015 at 4:43:53 PM UTC-4, g vim wrote: > > I recently did some research into web frameworks on Github. Here's what > I found: > > > FRAMEWORK LANG CONTRIBUTORS COMMITS > > Luminus Clojure 28 678 > Caribou Clojure 2 275 > > Beego Golang 99 1522 > > Phoenix Elixir 124 1949 > > Yesod Haskell 130 3722 > > Laravel PHP 268 4421 > > Play Scala 417 6085 > > Symfony PHP 1130 20914 > > Rails Ruby 2691 51000 > > > One could conclude from this that the Clojure community isn't that > interested in web development but the last Clojure survey suggests > otherwise. Clojure's library composition approach to everything only > goes so far with large web applications, as Aaron Bedra reminded us in > March last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBL59w7fXw4 . Less manpower > means less momentum and more bugs. Furthermore, I have a hunch that > Clojure's poor adoption as indicated by Indeed.com maybe due to this > immaturity in the web framework sphere. Why is it that Elixir, with a > much smaller community and lifespan than Clojure's, has managed to put 4 > times as much mindshare into its main web framework when its module > output, as measured by modulecounts.com, is a tiny fraction of Clojure's? > > gvim >
Those numbers aren't going to be an apples-to-apples comparison. "Contributors" may be lower for the Clojure libs because as a Lisp it enables them to be enormously more productive (up to 10x) than the other languages. The greater expressiveness allows the same functionality to live in a smaller codebase (as measured in LOC), likely reducing the number of commits for a given amount of functionality. And Clojure's concurrency and immutability constructs likely reduce the number of bugs, and thus the number of tickets and the number of commits whose primary purpose is to fix bugs. -- 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.
