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		the-alchemist on Dec 20, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Structuring Clojure applications It seems like a lot of the anti-Clojure sentiment boils down to 1) lack of static typing, 2) poor IDE support. I'm wondering, though, doesn't the same apply to Ruby, Python, and Node projects? I've over-hauled 80k line Python projects, and the "lack of typing" there seemed to apply as well. Why don't Ruby, Python, and Node projects suffer from the same critique? Genuinely curious...

fulafel on Dec 20, 2022 [–]

They do get the same themed critique from static language proponents, even more so since JS/Python don't have culture of using schema systems (ala spec and malli). But of course dynamic languages have a lot of upsides as well, it's just a tradeoff.

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