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To Clojure and back: Writing and rewriting in Ruby by **Phillip Mendonça-Vieira** (RubyConf 2016) 33:16
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RubyConf 2016 - To Clojure and back: writing and rewriting in Ruby by Phill MV
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- Presented by Phillip Mendonça-Vieira
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
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Programming languagesSoftware designLisp and ClojureRubySoftware architecture
Phillip Mendonça-Vieira shares the experience of building a startup app in Clojure and eventually rewriting it back to Ruby.
RubyConf 2016 - To Clojure and back: writing and rewriting in Ruby by Phill MV Act 1 - State of Grace After many years of Ruby, we built our app in Clojure, why not. Clojure is a breath of fresh air. Learn a lisp today! Act 2 - The Fall It's harder to succeed when you're in a new and different ecosystem. How Clojure contrasts with Ruby. Act 3 - The Wilderness Rewriting your app is a bad idea but we did it anyways. How we came to that decision. Act 4 - Reconciliation How I write Ruby has changed: a discussion.Why it's here
3 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as an insightful talk on the trade-offs of adopting Clojure in a startup and the decision to rewrite in Ruby.
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