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paulspencerwilliams09:11:00

I'd like to thank @malcolmsparks for an excellent Cognicast episode which I've only had chance to listen to during my commute this morning.

thomas10:11:02

+1 excellent talk indeed.

paulspencerwilliams14:11:09

I've been playing with Re-frame recently and SSE was the missing piece of my 'streams everywhere' puzzle. Desperately trying to find a little time to play with yada

paulspencerwilliams14:11:22

Following on from @malcolmsparks talk, how many in this channel are like me, in as much as they only really get to use Clojure out of work?

jonpither14:11:55

I've been reading a classic marketing book, crossing the chasm. It articulates well who makes up the various chunks in the tech adoption curve: http://www2.johnson.cornell.edu/alumni/enterprise/fall2012/images/ico_feature_nextbigthing_chart1.gif.

jonpither14:11:18

Innovators would be the people on here, using Clojure out of work etc

jonpither14:11:45

Early adopters are companies like uswitch, and other companies in London using Clojure to get a leap up on the competiton, and have a visionary at the helm

jonpither14:11:21

The early majority basically need references and case-studies. So once Clojure is doing well in a couple of high profile banks, the other banks will want it

jonpither14:11:27

same for other industry areas

jonpither14:11:34

The biggest problem Clojure has, Vs Scala, is discontinuous innovation. I.e. Scala is a continuous innovation path from Java. Clojure is discontinuous in that it's a radical departure, hence the adoption curve is far more relevant

jonpither14:11:03

Anyway, I thought I'd share, I found that interesting, may work into a short blog at some stage...

paulspencerwilliams14:11:00

yeah, i'm familiar with the book. It can be hard to tell where something like Clojure is on the curve.

paulspencerwilliams14:11:27

It's also hard to get a feeling for this when outside of London. Up here in the Midlands, anything other than PHP/Wordpress, C#, or Java is fairly rare.

jamiei15:11:04

Would you recommend the book?

maleghast16:11:41

@jonpither: Hey there Jon, how are you doing..?

maleghast16:11:45

That’s a great book, no doubt about that

andrei23:11:42

Hey all! I have a clojurex ticket if anyone is interested - https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/6861-clojure-exchange-2015 Now the conference sells for £425, my ticket is an early bird one and it will cost you only £114 - transfer via paypal. ping me in private for details simple_smile