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2019-02-04
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Brian Abbott06:02:10

Hey, cool, we have one here as well. I created the list #clojure-saltlakecity for anyone in the SLC area! Maybe that's a specialization of Utah?

scottwleonard06:02:59

I started Utah Clojure meetup awhile back, and we have been meeting monthly for a couple years up until the past holiday season. We havent had our first meetup of 2019 yet

scottwleonard06:02:11

this channel was meant to connect to that

Brian Abbott06:02:22

In SLC or another area?

scottwleonard06:02:20

it was hosted and sponsored by a couple different companies. we have had the meetings in a couple different locations in Lehi and American Fork. The attendees are from all over the place… from Provo up to Centerville.

scottwleonard06:02:20

I assume you are in the SLC area?

Brian Abbott06:02:23

Kinda, I will be soon, hopefully by March/April... But, Im pretty familiar with the area.

Brian Abbott06:02:52

ATM I live in Spokane, WA! 🙂

Brian Abbott06:02:14

I could do a meetup presentation though if you are looking for presenters

scottwleonard06:02:52

yeah that would be great. I think we have a place to meet at the point of the mountain… just need to work out the details

scottwleonard06:02:24

we try to meet in a central area… not a ton of clojurists in the area, so we just have the one meetup for both north and south

Brian Abbott06:02:44

Makes total sense!!

Brian Abbott06:02:02

We're a small group, we have to stick together or... somewhere in the middle!

scottwleonard06:02:51

do you work with clojure in your current job?

Brian Abbott06:02:24

I chill in Jackson and then drive to SLC when I go there so, N SLC, S SLC.... at that point makes no difference! 🙂

Brian Abbott06:02:57

Clojure with Luminous, Lucinda, Datomic, et al

Brian Abbott06:02:01

I've read the functional literature for a long while now but, this is my first hand on experience with it and... the purity and elegance is.... profound and exhilirating

scottwleonard06:02:46

yeah it is really fun to work with. we have some clojure in our stack, but we also have a bunch of python for the web stuff

Brian Abbott06:02:05

have you guys looked at luminous?

Brian Abbott06:02:16

its a surprisingly capable web stack

scottwleonard06:02:19

a little bit. we used compojure and then pedestal

scottwleonard06:02:42

when we were looking at web frameworks a couple years back we dug into a bunch of them a little

scottwleonard06:02:50

and looked at luminous

Brian Abbott06:02:33

"when we were looking at web frameworks a couple years back we dug into a bunch of them a little" -- yeah, I feel like that for every stack I dig into... there are so many, they evolve so fast and incorporate each other.... its like a multi-dimensional image of the theosophical self eating snake... from every angle...