Post 964850 by cbowdon@linuxrocks.online
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(DIR) Post #947730 by cbowdon@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-03T11:00:06Z
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A lot of people seem to be conflating hype with popularity (or worse, with quality). Is #Clojure dead because no one posts "Sudoku Solver In Clojure" to Hacker News? Is it dead because no new frameworks were released this week?My impression is it's growing, steadily. Slower than Kotlin or Go. The initial hype is long dead and people that pick it up now do so because they're interested in FP/Lisps rather than chasing the new shiny. Sounds good to me.
(DIR) Post #947731 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-11-03T17:41:09Z
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@cbowdon I mean, watching a lot of core, critical libraries rot with no development for multiple years is not exactly a sign of healthI think https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=clojure is sort of an illustrative graph (1.8 uploaded in Dec. 2016, I started maintaining the package in Jan. 2018)
(DIR) Post #962866 by cbowdon@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-04T10:40:19Z
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@ehashman Sorry, what is this? Number of installs on Debian?
(DIR) Post #963107 by semordnilap@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-03T20:35:25Z
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@cbowdon I started some months ago because I like to do stuff in Elisp and everybody always told me there was a good support for NLP, but I found only one library that seemed to have relevance. I would really like to give it a try again, honestly. any suggestions for manuals and NLP libraries?
(DIR) Post #963108 by cbowdon@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-04T10:50:57Z
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@semordnilap As far as I’m aware most of it is via Java libs. There’s a lot of choice there, I think the big ones are Apache OpenNLP, Stanford NLP and NLP4J. Interacting with these via Clojure is more pleasant than via Java, although not as nice as it would be with a pure Clojure lib.
(DIR) Post #964849 by digitalbaboon@mastodon.social
2018-11-03T11:21:15Z
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@cbowdon yeah, even tho’ I had to dive into #Clojure because of a new job, I have to admit the hype-less vibe of it makes it seem more mature, less needy, and does not want you to rewrite everything you’ve made every 6 months.
(DIR) Post #964850 by cbowdon@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-04T10:52:51Z
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@digitalbaboon That rate of decay is what really turns me off JS. Feels impossible to keep up with.
(DIR) Post #964851 by digitalbaboon@mastodon.social
2018-11-04T12:29:50Z
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@cbowdon Yup, I concur.
(DIR) Post #966608 by ehashman@toot.cat
2018-11-04T14:05:39Z
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@cbowdon number of reported installs by the popularity contest tool (so it's a big underestimate but a representative sample usually)
(DIR) Post #991973 by cbowdon@linuxrocks.online
2018-11-05T16:33:13Z
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@ehashman I question whether that's representative of Clojure popularity or the state of the Debian package - seems like since you took over maintenance there's a lot of interest, perhaps that drop was simply because the package was lagging behind the current Clojure version and people became accustomed to getting it directly from clojure.org.