Clojurians Log v2

kleber: where are you?

I’m in Gold Coast

I mean.. Queensland - Gold Coast

Sorry, I’ve just arrived here, still getting used to it.

no prob. Where are you from originally?

I’m from Brazil! :simple_smile:

ah cool. What brought you to Australia?

I’m working for this company http://www.bikeroar.com

interesting

have been working remotely for them for last 2y..

I’m currently working with Ruby on Rails.

How about you? Do you work with clojure?

I work for a startup in Melbourne called Homepass

we have a lot of Node stuff but are going to trial Clojure as a backend language for a particular problem

sorry, a bit distracted, fixed typo :simple_smile:

no worries. Cool!!

May I ask? why clojure?

and not Go, Erlang/Elixir?

a few reasons

well, that’s a big question

I know Go and Elixir and some Erlang

we are working on an integration problem, parsing lots of inbound documents and pubsubbing them to Firebase

I think clojure is a good fit for data translation and can scale to what we need

Go is a very limited language. I wouldn’t use it out of choice

Id much rather use the JVM ecosystem than Erlang’s. Plus we are using Google Cloud where we the JVM is supported

Nice one! thanks

so.. let me know when you come to Brisbane or Gold Coast! would be nice to have a beer/water and have some conversation!

sure, will do :simple_smile:

@nicholasf: In what ways to see Golang as limited? (not starting a flame, just want to know what you see as the trade-offs)

lanzafame: hrm, in quite a few ways

Ive been in two golang projects

the limitations of the language are very severe; no type aliasing, interface conversion being limited without type inference

it was disappointing to run into Go’s shortcomings because it’s very productive until that point

Hmm ok what kind of projects were the ones you worked on? I am currently contemplating a significant project in Go so advice of any kind is handy

service based systems on google cloud