alt Hacker NewsThanks for the link!
What would you say is missing from Clojure for large-scale OOP design? As I understand, Clojure gives you OOP a la carte. Objects (via maps/records/structs), polymorphic dispatch (via multimethods/protocols/case), types (via Malli/TypedClojure), inheritance (via derived, isa?, etc), some encapsulation (via defn-/^:private)...
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gertlabs • yesterday at 10:34 PM
I might just be a simpleton -- I never had the resolve to try an ambitious project in Clojure. I was not aware that you could get full OOP though, what you are describing feels like yes technically possible but kind of a hack to get inheritance / no type hierarchy enforcement. I'm no expert on the language though
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Not the person you're replying to, but have you tried TypedClojure? I've always thought clojure-with-types would literally be the perfect language, but I also read TypedClojure is more of a research project than a real language that you should use in prod.