+1 to Joshua's answer. If you want to make sure that Clojure never gets used, convince your boss to try it and then fail to meet expectations for ANY reason. One thing I know, poor Clojure will take all the blame and be booted from the company.
When my company was young, I convinced my partner to try Rails, a new comer in the web space. (He was a PHP guy.) While the language was fine, he found the tooling at the time to be difficult and confusing, and so we pitched it out in favor of something else (python / django, as I recall). For the next 6 years, every time I brought up using Rails (which grew in popularity like CRAZY) he would say "We tried that and Rails sucks. Not doing that again." I'd hate to see the same thing happen to you. When I introduced Clojure to my company, I took a senior dev aside and said "For the next project, I'd like you to try this new thing. Here's a book and a Heroku account, give it a whirl." If the project had gone sideways, so be it, but I wasn't going to hang it all on the language's fault. I'd be willing, as always, to take the blame. Just my $0.02, Marcus On Aug 20, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Nando Breiter <na...@aria-media.com> wrote: > Perhaps the question is more "Is your boss (or company) suitable for > Clojure?" > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Joshua Ballanco <jball...@gmail.com> wrote: > My advice on convincing your boss to use Clojure for a new project: don't. > > Projects succeed or fail for any number of different reasons, but I can > guarantee you that if you *start* a new project with Clojure, and it does > happen to fail, then the choice of Clojure will bear the brunt of the blame > whether it deserves it or not. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Best, Marcus Marcus Blankenship \\\ Problem Solver, Linear Thinker \\\ 541.805.2736 \ @justzeros \ skype:marcuscreo -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
