Itβs time for my semi-annual Biff appreciation outburst. Just deployed to a droplet and am happily watching my changes roll out live to the world. Biff is so easy to deploy and just works. Itβs all great. Thank you!
Sup everyone, getting into Clojure coming from 10y of ruby, 5y of Java & just checking out on Biff's, felt hugged π
> if there's anything that might be helpful to replicate that'd be useful to be aware of I actually did a fair amount of Ruby (still maintain one tool that is actively used by the community now) too in my day; had my time with Rails... and then went off of it (see later). I'd say there are things to not replicate from Rails as well. Like the over-extreme amount of magic.
π good to know all around
awesome! let me know if you think of any potential improvements. e.g. I haven't used rails at all myself, so assuming you have, if there's anything that might be helpful to replicate that'd be useful to be aware of
Welcome! I too will love to hear in the future about your experience with Clojure from the Ruby perspective. Rails was a total game changer when it rolled out. β‘
@foo yeah man great work! Interesting that you didn't came from it, I just assumed it. The tooling around rails is also really good like with generators with some helpful comments sprinkled around etc, I was delighted by that in Biff. Documentation is looking great too! Wild that Rich Hickey too came from C++ & Java and not from more dynamic languages but then it ends going even further, great stuff. Thanks @macrobartfast, yeah indeed it was crazy impactful, its like it made a lot of stuff that was going on at the time feel old from one day to the other!
To me it feels like there's a natural bridge between the two, for example there's PRY which is a go at REPL driven development in Ruby. On the tooling there was always also rails console which is also about touching & inspecting everything and master the code... Then when you start to limit statefulness the code can start to feel a lot like FP... Definitely recommend it too.