Betting the company on Clojure
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Ardoq bets the company on Clojure backend and JavaScript/TypeScript frontend in 2013, and after nearly a decade grows to ~200 employees with an engineering org of ~42 and about 16 Clojure developers. Backend is roughly 120k LOC Clojure vs ~400k LOC JS/TS. Clojure delivers smaller, faster-to-change server code, makes hiring backend devs easier (less than 10 candidates needed per hire) while front-end hiring needs ~200 candidates per hire. Early tech mistakes include Backbone/jQuery and MongoDB; migration toward Postgres is ongoing.
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