[HN Gopher] Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase
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       Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase
        
       Author : swannodette
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2021-06-03 18:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | acheron wrote:
       | Cool stuff but this is a dupe from the other day:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27385208
        
       | ithrow wrote:
       | Why hasn't Clojure provide any java.util.function interfaces
       | integration? for language a that's suppose to "embrace the host"
       | to have "ergonomic" access to the host libs because it itself
       | lacks an ecosystem this seems weird.
        
         | AlexCoventry wrote:
         | Clojure precedes Java 8.
        
           | Scarbutt wrote:
           | GP means why it hasn't kept up with fundamentals of the host
           | language, Java 8 was released in 2014.
        
         | jwhitlark wrote:
         | This is actually one of my rare criticisms of Clojure. There's
         | a patch, but there was apparently concern about perf.
         | Personally, if I had to do a lot of interop like this, I'd pull
         | it into a custom build, as it wasn't large. I've not kept up
         | with it lately, though, as I haven't needed to do a lot with
         | Kafka recently.
        
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