[HN Gopher] Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Showno...
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Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
Author : adityaathalye
Score : 56 points
Date : 2026-04-16 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (clojure.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (clojure.org)
| mkw5053 wrote:
| In a previous life, I wrote Clojure every day and still look back
| fondly attending Clojure/Conj and sitting next to Rich Hickey and
| other Clojure greats at dinner.
|
| My first startup was all Clojure. AWS only had a dozen or two
| products and I think we must have been the first to compile
| Clojure to JS and run it on Lambda in production (the only
| runtime was Node.js 0.10 at the time).
|
| Anyway, I cannot wait to watch this
| ares623 wrote:
| AI slop Rich is gross considering his stance on it. I guess it's
| up to the producers but very tone deaf.
| mkw5053 wrote:
| Are you watching the same thing I am? What AI slop?
| Jeaye wrote:
| I think they mean the video thumbnail, which may or may not
| be AI-generated.
| FelipeCortez wrote:
| I don't think it is, considering they highlighted it in a
| post about human craft [1]. I read somewhere it was
| illustrated by felipemelo.net, but can't find the reference
| anymore
|
| [1]: https://bsky.app/profile/cultrepo.bsky.social/post/3mj
| hubrh3...
| pixelmonkey wrote:
| It'll be interesting to learn whether it was AI-
| generated. It certainly SEEMS like it is. It has a few
| "tells":
|
| - two belts and two Clojure logo belt buckles
|
| - same code repeated on the steps (odd artistic choice if
| made by the artist)
|
| - the seemingly out-of-place scarf, stylistically doesn't
| seem to fit
|
| Either way, it seems like an homage to this Indiana Jones
| and the Temple of Doom poster:
|
| https://printedoriginals.com/products/indiana-jones-and-
| the-...
| agentifysh wrote:
| As you demonstrated, AI is not needed to write slop, just
| because AI is involved doesn't make it slop. We are still very
| much in the control even if it is generation.
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| The very official Clojure page in TFA links to clojure-mcp
| (written by the person who created figwheel: a famous
| ClojureScript library in the Clojure ecosystem) and other AI
| resources related to Clojure.
|
| It's not because Rich doesn't want AI-generated pull-requests
| by people then taking credits that the Clojure community is
| anti-AI.
|
| I use Claude Code CLI daily with Clojure, just not in a _"
| write me five thousands lines of Clojure code I won't read"_
| type of way.
| agentifysh wrote:
| is clojure still relevant in the post agentic coding reality that
| opens up pretty much all esoteric languages to everyone ?
|
| back in the day used to use clojure to write a fintech app but
| not sure if it is still relevant has uses vs other langs that
| have emerged
| netbioserror wrote:
| Clojure might be the least esoteric language ever. Call a
| function, get a value.
| agentifysh wrote:
| It definitely is more "mainstream" than others but I just
| don't see the same level of attention and enthusiasm around
| it anymore. I'm sure it is still being used in many places
| but like Elixir, hiring remains on the tough end.
| TacticalCoder wrote:
| Incredible: I had not idea NuBank discovered Datomic first and
| that it's Datomic that led them to Clojure, 100 million+
| customers, and eventually acquiring Cognitect.
|
| Good to see David Nolen (aka "swanodette") is in the documentary
| too.
|
| As a bonus here's a recent talk from David Nolen about
| Clojure/ClojureScript and using DOM morphing instead of React.
|
| If you don't want to watch it all, just take two minutes to watch
| from 23m15s to 25m15s. He compares a behemoth slurping all the
| browser's CPU and RAM resources versus a 13 Kb of JavaScript +
| Web components and DOM morphing:
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| https://youtu.be/BeE00vGC36E
|
| His talk his presented from Emacs, gotta love that too...
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