(real question) Is there a list somewhere of the Clojure friendly companies which are publicly advertising having a clean code base, and spending time making sure it stays that way? I am in the need, thx.

publicly advertising a clean code base is something companies do?

I remember seeing some doing that in their job page, as an argument to attract talents. The issue is that I did not bookmark them.

I feel like advertising a clean code base is like advertising lead-free breakfast cereal - that shouldn't be a distinguishing factor! All the same, if a clean code base was something a job page led with, that would get my interest.

Public advertising is probably better than no-info, but how do you solve the problem of "One person's clean is another's crappy"?

The code quality is indeed something very subjective. But seeing “good code quality” as being advertised is always a good hint at one company’s culture regarding openness to improvements.

It's pretty sad if a company needs to advertise "good code quality" to differentiate themselves...

...and I'm not sure I'd believe a company that advertised that anyway.

I think there is one way to make sure code is “clean” by some reviewable factor: publish open source libraries

If a company does publish a lot of them, then I have a quite good idea about the quality of their code (as I can read it)

So if we’re searching for an example of this in the Clojure world, Metosin would be a good one; their Github is crazy: https://github.com/metosin/