Archive for Jan 2017

  • 7 min read

Bringing order with Clojure's sort-by

It is unavoidable, really.

Any data eventually needs to be sorted for presentation. Most of the times we’re very lucky and we could lean on the implicit order of data returned from the database, or we can decorate that HTML table with DataTables and...

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The JVM is not that heavy

Mostly my opposition to Clojure is the JVM. That sh*t is heavy.

This came up in the ZA Tech Slack team several weeks ago. While watching some Clojure talks over the holidays the speakers also noted this objection over and over again.

I had a bit...