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		EternalFury on May 29, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our experience using Clojure to speed up Beanstalk There seems to be a race towards the most exotic or revivalist programming languages. As if programming languages were magic bullets of some sort.

balac on May 29, 2012 [–]

What is your contention to their choice here? It seems that are simply choosing the best tool for the job, it is not as if they are rewriting their whole web frontend in Clojure too.

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