In my experience many applications are built using web frameworks because the often complex data models of corporate apps require significant UI for administration and UI or API for data entry. The application gets written using a language / framework that is optimized around that. Clojure is well positioned to handle the data processing portion of these applications where there real business value is derived, unfortunately that ends up getting implemented in the same language / framework due to developer familiarity and concerns about supportability.
Benefits of opinionated frameworks include: - free developers up from the need to make decisions about libraries - consistent project structure enables people familiar with the framework to quickly get oriented - keep less experienced developers from making major architecture mistakes. - developers don't need to be experts on everything Right now the cost of entry to Clojure web development is high because of the fragmentation, documentation, and paradigm shift. I believe that highly skilled developers can be far more productive using Clojure once familiar with the ecosystem and language. They have to get started though and there are often junior people on the team that will have a harder time coming up to speed. My feeling is that if the "low value" portions of the application can't be trivially written in Clojure then the complex parts won't be either. Dylan On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 3:28:59 AM UTC-5, Christopher Small wrote: > > I really like what you said here Mark: > > From a technological standpoint, I think we're there. The things we most >> need are informational resources and higher-level shared resources, such as >> UI widgets. For example: >> > > I fully agree. I don't think we've moved in a wrong direction at all. Just > that we need to continue building on what we already have, and do so in the > right directions. > -- 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.
