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amai on Dec 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?

I compared Clojure with Java and see no advantages for using Clojure instead of Java on the JVM. Your examples comparing Clojure with Rust or Javascript are not of interest in that discussion. Both Rust and Javascript are used for completely different use cases than Clojure and Java.

j-pb on Dec 8, 2023 [–]

    (I) see no advantages for using Clojure instead of Java on the JVM

To be blunt, I think that says more about you than it says about Clojure. A good engineer should always see the tradeoffs.

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