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I’m curious - what kind of companies are looking for Clojure engineers? For what kind of work?
I’m very much enjoying learning a Lisp for what it’s teaching me about writing code in general
but it does feel a little… academic… instructive, but hard to see why a company would hire for Clojure rather than, say, Scala
as a functional lang on the jvm i feel clj is suitable for any task scala might be, and probably more since clj is better 😼
so i think most of the reasons a company might choose scala are applicable to clj
In fact I'd say it's Reagent/re-frame that got me to look at ClojureScript (and thus Clojure) more seriously.
from a hiring perspective it's probably harder to find on-site clj people than scala people... but then i think mid-level scala people probably ripe to be converted to clj
we hired a guy last year who had a mostly java/scala background with dabbles in haskell/clj and he absolutely crushes it on the job working with clj
@alandipert: Say, you looking for any part-time coders? I come from Scheme and Racket and dabble with ClojureScript, and I learn quickly. 😉
@cky: i'll make a note to contact you if anything opens up! we're clearing a few big projects and hope to be hiring again soon
will you be at triclojure this week btw? happy to talk more then
@cky: cool. i also just bumped max to 35, feel free to bring a friend 😄 we bought more chairs
funny @dancrum actually i find Clojure more practical, less academic and more stable than Scala. Most of the companies i have seen hiring people for backend are working with Big Data and Finance.
@dancrumb: You can, BTW, use ClojureScript as a bridge between your JS skills and your Clojure learning. In fact, I found that very helpful, because I learnt a lot on the go implementing my own Reagent/re-frame project. (https://gitlab.com/cky/emojisweeper)
rather than constantly (and erroneously) trying to map things back to another language