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Jan Stępień - MIGRATING TO CLOJURE. SO MUCH FN

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  • Presented by Jan Stępień, software engineer at stylefruits
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Programming languagesCareers and interviewsLisp and ClojureRubyInside tech companies

Jan Stępień shares the story of gradually replacing a Ruby-based technology stack with Clojure at stylefruits.

This video was recorded on wrocloverb.com. You should follow us at twitter.com/wrocloverb. See you next year! Slides: speakerdeck.com/jan/wroc-love-dot-rb-migrating-to-clojure-so… Jan Stępień with MIGRATING TO CLOJURE. SO MUCH FN. Migrating a technology stack to a new language is rarely a simple task. It's getting even more challenging when what is changed is not only the language but the whole paradigm. This talk covers a story of stylefruits, where we've been gradually replacing a Ruby-based technology stack serving five million monthly visitors with Clojure. What are the costs and benefits of such a transition? How to make the migration gradual and painless? How to make Ruby and Clojure work with each other on the way? How easy is it to switch from a dynamic, object-oriented language to a functional one based on immutability and laziness? These are just some takeaways from this straight-from-the-trenches report.

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u/macin r/Clojure • Recommends

Migrating to Clojure. So much fn. (presentation/video)
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u/jstepienin r/Clojure • Recommends

On “Anyone use multiple Lang's within one project on the jvm?”

stylefruits have a largeish web application running Clojure and JRuby in a single JVM. Tools like Zweikopf make them work quite well together. You can learn more on how and why in the remainder of the linked talk.
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u/jstepienin r/Clojure • Recommends

On “Appeal of Clojure(script)?”

…pplication to Clojure]vid. REPL-driven development is an outstandingly productive way to work. Your development web app instance, test suite and back-of-the-envelope experiments are running in a single JVM. Feedback loops are short and distractions à la http://xkcd.com/303/ are seldom encountered. Work like this once and never look back. vid: link to this video…
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