On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 1:43 PM, gvim <gvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > One could conclude from this that the Clojure community isn't that > interested in web development but the last Clojure survey suggests > otherwise.
Yes, lots of web apps get built with Clojure. > 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. I think Clojure's adoption is just fine for its age and its uniqueness. It's not the sort of language that mainstream developers are going to rush to, to build general web apps. People who adopt Clojure generally do so because they want to build software "The Clojure Way". That they also build a lot of web apps is somewhat incidental. Every now and then we see a call for a "big web framework" and every now and then someone builds a "big web framework"... but the people who call for these frameworks don't seem to rally around the frameworks that appear, so it's really no surprise that these frameworks don't have the traction you're looking for... I've used some "big web frameworks". I don't like them. Years ago, for another language, I collaborated on almost every major web framework that appeared. I was lead developer on a few of them for various periods of time. Six years ago, I created my own very small, convention-based framework for that language. It's one of the top two frameworks for that language in terms of downloads, users, and mindshare. We run a bunch of high traffic production stuff on it at work. A few years back I decided to port it to Clojure, mostly as a personal challenge, but also because I thought it might be useful at work. Clojure's focuse on libraries meant that I only needed to write 400 lines of code and leverage Ring, and Selmer, to get it up and running. I haven't promoted it in the Clojure community yet because I'm not yet using it in production but I think it's a good solution -- but it's definitely not a "big web framework". -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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.
