Clojure's killer design decisions
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Clojure's three killer design decisions that boosted its adoption and maturity were: 1) Solving everyday problems through its small core and terse syntax which addresses boilerplate code and provides primitives for concurrency and parallelism. 2) Being hosted on the JVM to leverage the trusted and performant runtime as well as the large Java ecosystem. 3) Having effective governance through significant innovations within the first 10 years and an openness to adopting ideas from other communities.
Clojure's killer design decisions
- 1. Clojure’s killer design decisions 3 key decisions that boosted Clojure adoption and maturity Luca Grulla - VP Engineering, Signal Media Functional Meetup, London Sept 2018
- 2. There are “killer” decisions that boost a language maturity and adoption
- 3. Maturity 1959 20171985 1990 1995 2007 2011 Cobol C++ Haskell Java Clojure Kotlin Rust 1958 Lisp
- 4. Adoption: 2018 top 20 languages
- 5. Clojure’s 3 killer design decisions
- 6. 1. Solve everyday problems
- 7. 1 - Solve everyday problems ● Boilerplate code ○ Lisp + FP + dynamic => small core and a terse syntax ● Concurrency & parallelism ○ Immutable data structure for simpler concurrency ○ Great primitives for parallelism
- 8. 2. Hosted on JVM
- 9. 2 - Hosted on JVM ● “Use a runtime that people accept” ○ The JVM is loved and trusted by Ops and Security teams ● “Use other’s people code” ○ Interoperability with the VAST Java ecosystem ● Focus on the language, not the runtime ○ Bet on JVM performance and on the continuous improvement of it
- 11. 3 - Effective governance (BDFL) ● Significant innovations within the first 10 years ○ core.async ○ transducers ○ clojure.spec ● Open minded about adopting ideas from other communities/initiatives ○ clojure.spec⇔ RDF and Prismatic’s Schema ○ core.async⇔ Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) ⇔ Go ○ core.typed
- 12. From design decisions to principles 1. Focus on your community a. Solve everyday problems 2. Be aware of the operational aspects a. Hosted on JVM 3. Keep innovating a. Effective governance
- 13. Questions? https://www.lucagrulla.com Signal Media is hiring! https://signalmedia.co/solve-big-challenges/