Hello Edwin, Clojure appeals to people: who enjoy a Lisp dev style with bottom up repl coding, who need to be on the JVM, and who like some of the neat features of the language (universal seq APIs for collections, mostly immutable data, etc.) BTW, there are some amazing projects built on Clojure - choose an application domain you are interested in and try searching for that domain + clojure
Hi Mark, I'm interested to see Clojure in the LoB type of application. Yes, LoB is boring, but I'd like to see some comparison between the model-heavy/oop-heavy vs Clojure.
Would be nice if the apps show internationalization and some way to handle Time and Money.
Joda Time is actually a great example of a library letting you work in terms of values instead of the mutable object disaster that is java.util.Date; it just happens to be implemented in Java itself.
If you can imagine the same benefits of working with stable values applied across the board to all your built-in data structures, that might help.
Operating directly on Java classes is pretty standard. Of course you have to be very careful when working with classes which allow mutability, (true in all languages, really) but with Joda that's not an issue.
The only thing you miss out on is that Java methods can't be used as higher-order functions.
My Indonesian is pretty rusty; I should probably update it to say that I understand it rather than speak it. =)
