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teodorlu 2022-07-31T07:32:00.920309Z
What's good about ecto? How would the good parts look in clojure?
Cora (she/her) 2022-07-31T03:28:36.743739Z
of that languages that are out there I feel like elixir is the most similar to clojure
Cora (she/her) 2022-07-31T03:29:01.535619Z
I wonder what things we can glean from elixir and port to clojure
Cora (she/her) 2022-07-31T03:30:31.312419Z
the library ecto comes to mind, it really has incredible relational database support
2022-08-01T06:12:53.527719Z
Is it needed though? In Clojure you'd want to get your records back as maps. Do you need something to map back/forth with a defrecord? It also adds validation and all that, but I normally use spec for that. I guess maybe, it does provide rigid structure. I just feel next.jdbc + HoneySQL gives you most of Ecto.
Cora (she/her) 2022-07-31T03:30:48.052759Z
Cora (she/her) 2022-07-31T03:31:15.836749Z
64757 loc is a lot to port to clojure, though
2022-08-01T06:18:17.665639Z
That's insane. I don't think I have a single Clojure code base that large... I wonder why it's so much code, is their cruft, or truly Ecto has a ridiculous amount of functionality?
2022-08-01T06:19:57.681189Z
Who even spent all that time on an open source lib writing so much code? Pretty sure that's bigger then the entire Clojure code base as well.
2022-08-01T06:21:37.244899Z
Ok, the entire Clojure code base is 76899 LOC, so Ecto is almost as much code as all of Clojure