Not my youtube channel. It just showed up in my recommended videos and it seemed like good advice (common sense). It's helpful to point devs to those videos when I see them making those types of mistakes.
I miss the data oriented approach Clojure libraries take. I remember having an issue with Ring and I just dove into the Ring source code and it was so simple and clear and I found the solution to my issue in minutes. I've never had that experience with Java and instead resort to forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most Java libraries would have several layers of abstraction and they're often intimidating. I consider myself an amateur Clojure dev and yet still contributed some PRs to some projects.
With that said, I've written some internal tools in Clojure and it was a nightmare whenever I had to modify them. They were pretty simple CLI tools that only needed updates every 6 months or so. I usually have to spin up the project with a repl just to understand the inputs and outputs to functions. I've ported all internal tools I created at my current company from Clojure to Java and I personally find them so much easier to maintain.
I miss the data oriented approach Clojure libraries take. I remember having an issue with Ring and I just dove into the Ring source code and it was so simple and clear and I found the solution to my issue in minutes. I've never had that experience with Java and instead resort to forums, stackoverflow, etc. Most Java libraries would have several layers of abstraction and they're often intimidating. I consider myself an amateur Clojure dev and yet still contributed some PRs to some projects.
With that said, I've written some internal tools in Clojure and it was a nightmare whenever I had to modify them. They were pretty simple CLI tools that only needed updates every 6 months or so. I usually have to spin up the project with a repl just to understand the inputs and outputs to functions. I've ported all internal tools I created at my current company from Clojure to Java and I personally find them so much easier to maintain.