I haven't worked with Clojure, but one of my subscribers wrote me contrasting exactly that:
Wanted to thank you again for making these videos, I learned a ton and I'm really into Elixir now. If only there was a way to use it at work!
One of my favorite things about Elixir is Erlang/OTP. It's as if you're in Disneyland and everything's nice and colorful. But sometimes you go into a basement and you discover the entire thing is built on top of ancient Jedi ruins and these immortal, powerful forces lurk just beneath the surface, at your disposal.
Clojure is the opposite. It's all nice and fine as long as you're in Clojureland, but then you look behind the curtain and it's a huge pile of cards and matchsticks that hold everything together, and the glue is made of mutable state and classes.
And man, the tooling. I can't say this enough. It took me about 3 seconds to create a new project with mix new to get the unit tests and everything set up for the flatten challenge. I don't even know how to set up unit tests in Clojure, and I've been playing with it for 5 years.
Wanted to thank you again for making these videos, I learned a ton and I'm really into Elixir now. If only there was a way to use it at work!
One of my favorite things about Elixir is Erlang/OTP. It's as if you're in Disneyland and everything's nice and colorful. But sometimes you go into a basement and you discover the entire thing is built on top of ancient Jedi ruins and these immortal, powerful forces lurk just beneath the surface, at your disposal.
Clojure is the opposite. It's all nice and fine as long as you're in Clojureland, but then you look behind the curtain and it's a huge pile of cards and matchsticks that hold everything together, and the glue is made of mutable state and classes.
And man, the tooling. I can't say this enough. It took me about 3 seconds to create a new project with mix new to get the unit tests and everything set up for the flatten challenge. I don't even know how to set up unit tests in Clojure, and I've been playing with it for 5 years.
So basically OTP == "ancient Jedi ruins" :D