In a past few months I’ve started playing with Clojure. There are many reasons for that. Currently I’m working with ruby at Flatstack. Actually, I work mostly with rails and this is already bored me. Not so much ruby, but the rails thing - when working with rails I’ve started to forget basic things and (which is even worse) stopped looking at how things really work . For example, why should I care how to rewrite this simple query in MongoDB console:
Article.where(title: 'Clojure').order(:published_at.desc)Rails will do that for me. You should only care about logic specific to your domain. And this is super cool! …if you want to build websites all your life. I want more hardcore programming like writing mongodb adapter or wrapper for Titan.
So I started to look for other programming languages. I have been passively fond of functional programming languages. Tried scheme, erlang and even haskell. But there was one language which interested me the most - Clojure. So I thought to myself why not to try it. I’m not afraid of parentheses, interested in how JVM works, love FP.
I’ve started to read SICP and try to solve exersices with clojure. Then I’ve reached the web - ring, compojure, hiccup and clojurescript. Ring is like Rack, compojure is clojure’s sinatra - not so much difficult.
Now I want to organize all of this in my head. So I decided to start this blog.
If you have an interesting clojure project and looking for a good developer to work with - ping me on Twitter - I’m @mprokopiev.