clojure-uk

A place for people in the UK, near the UK, visiting the UK, planning to visit the UK or just vaguely interested to randomly chat about things (often vi and emacs, occasionally clojure). More general the #ldnclj
djm 2020-07-25T06:00:55.208400Z

Most of our users still use IE11 :thisisfine:

seancorfield 2020-07-25T06:11:11.208600Z

@djm_uk Luckily, we can choose to not support Internet Explorer but I know corporate-targeted apps still have to support it.

onetom 2020-07-25T15:05:14.210500Z

it was an interesting conversation about the various http server alternatives and the state of aleph and zach. i wonder what is he programming in nowadays... what's your take on pedestal and - in general - interceptors vs middlewares?

dominicm 2020-07-25T16:22:42.210900Z

I think he's doing scala at Microsoft

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seancorfield 2020-07-25T18:36:10.211600Z

I haven't used Pedestal so I'll be interested to hear people's opinions on that.

2020-07-27T08:00:06.226700Z

I do like pedestal, its just enough familiarity, coming from a java background

2020-07-27T08:01:03.226900Z

the aleph deferred/manifold stuff drives me up the wall because effectively every function call runs in its own thread, making stack traces very unhelpful

2020-07-27T08:01:45.227100Z

I imagine it gets you into the right mindset for hard-core microservices

2020-07-27T08:01:54.227300Z

perhaps that is what I am resisting

dominicm 2020-07-25T20:40:53.213800Z

One downside that's bothered me a lot: it's really hard to follow the dynamic stack manipulation that's happening. That's what interceptors essentially are after all. Reifying the stack into your application and allowing you to manipulate it.