clojureD 2019: “Our Journey from Elm and Elixir to Clojure“ by Martin Kavalar

The Big Rewrite is generally considered to be a bad idea. Our experience has been different. We would like to share how Clojure sneaked in through the front(-end) door and why we ultimately decided to go full-stack, from Datomic to ClojureScript. Nextjournal is an integrated notebook-like platform with a focus on long-term reproducibility. Our team consisted of five language polyglots with only one member having had prior Clojure experience. Starting out, we chose Elixir for the backend and Elm for the fr