Why Clojure?

This is about a 17 minute read. Feel free to pause and come back to it later. Clojure is not one of the handful of "big" mainstream languages. This means that sometimes people are surprised that we are all in on Clojure. Why go against the grain? Why make it harder for yourself by building on niche technology? Gaiwan is mostly known as a Clojure consultancy, but we don't consider ourselves as being defined by Clojure. Rather, we are group of experienced technologists (10+ years of industry experience on average) who are deliberate and intentional about the technologies we build upon. Rather than choosing tech that is fashionable, or that has the biggest marketing budget, we choose tech that gives us the highest leverage. Tech that allows a small team like ours to be maximally productive, to maintain velocity as systems grow, and that allows us to keep overall complexity low. Right now, that tech is Clojure. In this article I want cover some of the reasons of why that is. In the firs ... Read full article.