Ep 038: How Do I Convince My Coworkers to Use Clojure?
Functional Design in Clojure
English - July 19, 2019 15:00 - 24 minutes - 34.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTechnology Education How To tech software design functional clojure immutable geek nerd development nate Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We recall our own experiences evangelizing Clojure and give practical advice from the trenches.
Each week, we answer a different question about Clojure and functional programming.
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This week, the question is: "How do I convince my coworkers to use Clojure?". We recall our own experiences evangelizing Clojure and give practical advice from the trenches.
Selected quotes:
"Don't assume someone is going to want to jump on the grenade."
"There are actually two steps: 1. Convince people that Clojure is a good thing. 2. Get people to actually use it."
"Lambda as in AWS Lambda, not as in Clojure lambda. They stole our cool word!"
"By the way, that solution came from Clojure."
"Get people thinking in the functional direction."
"There are only two types of tools: those that you hate and those you don't use."
"When people get stuck, they think it's the language's fault, because it has chosen to categorically eliminate solutions that they, as a developer, have relied on for years."
"The path to Clojure adoption is primarily social, not technical."
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