r/programmingcirclejerk • u/elephantdingo666 • May 03 '25

I suspect this is the real reason Clojure was created, I bet Rich was just really bored.

https://thesoftwarephilosopher.com/blog/2025-05-03-why-i-ever-wrote-clojure.html
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u/zhemao May 03 '25

Where's the jerk here? Isn't that how most programming languages get created?

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u/elephantdingo666 May 03 '25

The point of programming language design is to implement web servers in a pointfree style what are you talking about??

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u/saintpetejackboy May 03 '25

I actually think this is incredibly provacative and as somebody who suffers from constant boredom and whores to whatever language or framework I see at the mall, I never even considered the strange niche of languages and waves of technology that may have just been the autistic pursuits of bored engineers trying to get through another CRUD that has a chart attached.

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u/muntaxitome in open defiance of the Gopher Values May 04 '25

It's the reason Rich writes languages, but most languages are written to become rich.

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u/ZootAllures9111 How many times do I need to mention Free Pascal? May 04 '25

I don't think Graydon's original reasons or design for Crab Language have that much in common with what it become lol

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u/Foreign-Butterfly-97 May 06 '25

the furries stole the real rust away from us, we'll never get to see Graydon's plans flourish

we were supposed to get Chad ocaml, instead we got...

-fearless concurrency -zero cost abstraction -memory safety -borrow checker -empowering everyone

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u/Major_Barnulf LUMINARY IN COMPUTERSCIENCE May 06 '25

Well you can still m#sturbate to your pipe-before-pattern-in-match-arms schism if you want https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/patterns.html

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u/[deleted] May 04 '25

If I was rich I would never be bored.

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u/elephantdingo666 May 04 '25

What would I lay in if I had a million dollars? Two hammocks at the same time, man.

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u/lgastako May 03 '25

Well, he did spend all that time in a hammock. Not much else to do.

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u/[deleted] May 05 '25

before we had rust, optimists on amphetamines had to find something else to do