Clojure Freed Me from the Ceremony
The author reflects on their experience using Clojure at Nubank, highlighting the reduction in code complexity compared to traditional object-oriented programming. They appreciate how Clojure allows for simpler expressions of logic without the extensive scaffolding required by languages like C# and Java. While acknowledging the merits of OOP, the author finds that Clojure's functional programming approach aligns better with backend data transformation tasks.
- ▪Clojure reduces the amount of code needed to achieve the same functionality compared to C# or Java.
- ▪The author notes that much of the complexity in OOP comes from the language's requirements for structure and scaffolding.
- ▪Clojure's design encourages simplicity, allowing developers to focus on core logic rather than boilerplate code.
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How Clojure Freed Me from the Ceremony Oct 15, 2020 • Carlos Blanco A year into working at Nubank — where the backend runs almost entirely on Clojure — I’ve had enough time to form a real opinion rather than a first impression. The thing that keeps standing out to me is how much less code I write to accomplish the same things I used to do in C# or Java. Not fewer features, not less correctness — fewer words. When I was watching Rich Hickey talk about how standard libraries in some OOP languages end up with deeply layered class hierarchies just to represent simple concepts, something clicked. The complexity isn’t always in the problem. A lot of the time it’s in the language’s way of expressing the solution.
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