Alexander Solovyov

@isagalaev btw, it's funny, but I have to tell you: it was your blog that got me started on Django and then it was your post about Clojure that made me think "ok I can try another Lisp" after being disappointed with elisp and common lisp. Now I made whole company write Clojure. :)

Your writing shaped my career quite a bit it seems. :)

Aug 9, 2017 at 6:26pmAmaroq
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Aug 9, 2017
@asolovyov oh wow… I now feel very humbled by the whole responsibility it entails!
Show threadAlexander SolovyovAug 9, 2017
@isagalaev no responsibility, really, obviously life has many sides yada yada yada, but still, just realized that. :) Anyway, why are you not writing Clojure these days?
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Aug 9, 2017
@asolovyov lack of real opportunities, I guess :-) But I actually did a demo at work exposing a Java library as a RESTful service. Still want to do more of it and push it further. But it's people's inertia that's really hard to overcome, and we're not a small company…
Show threadAlexander SolovyovAug 9, 2017
@isagalaev yeah inertia is hard. I've got an easier way since I can dictate somewhat what to do, but I've spent quite a bit of time discussing this stuff. :) Also I like that your post predicted STM being really important and we almost don't use that. :)
Show threadAlexander SolovyovAug 9, 2017
@isagalaev by like I mean "find it interesting" :)
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Aug 9, 2017

@asolovyov well, that's how it is with predictions :-) I noticed as well that nobody talks about, say, agents anymore.

On the other hand, I was right about the importance of node.js. Although I didn't expect the horrible mess with callbacks, dependencies and general sloppy implementation of everything :-)

Show threadAlexander SolovyovAug 10, 2017
@isagalaev that prediction is rather irritating! :)
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Aug 10, 2017
@asolovyov sorry about that :-)