A History of Clojure [video]

https://www.pldi21.org/prerecorded_hopl.11.html

by lukashrb • 5 years ago

99 10 5 years ago

It is fun to compare the histories of Clojure, Scala and F#. A pragmatic programmer created Clojure. A university professor created Scala. A research team from Microsoft created F#. Each language is characterized by its creator(s).

grumpyprole2• 5 years ago

I find Scala a bit of an anomaly though, yes it was created by a university professor, but it was clearly designed for mass adoption - even down to the curly braces (although they are backtracking that decision now). I have lot of sympathy for this approach, but I think it has also been the underlying cause of many of their problems.

pjmlp3• 5 years ago

A university professor that created the Modula-2 compiler sold by Borland, and was one of the Pizza compiler designers, which contributed to Java generics.

Not your regular university professor, rather someone with industry experience, specially in the Java world.

dang• 5 years ago

A History of Clojure [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23418699 - June 2020 (374 comments)

truth_seeker• 5 years ago

The background of the video with music instruments looks cool.

mapgrep• 5 years ago

In the q&a with Guy Steele at the end he says one thing he would do differently is integrate transducers more deeply into the language from the beginning, but the concept emerged around the time of core async when they were wary of rewriting map filter reduce etc again for channels (rough paraphrase from memory, watched this a few days ago).

I wonder what that would look like, what core functions would use transducers that do not, and how.

A History of Clojure [video]

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