My prior team had a clojure codebase. It got swapped to some python malarkey. The clojure app was the only clojure app at the company. The original author i think made that decision in isolation—and our structure allowed for deeply independent decision making, imho to a fault. The problem was (of course)… he was the sole clojure dev before departing. I wish i had taken the time to learn it back then—my FP skills came only years later, and only later did i realize what a gem we actually had. It wasnt a huge project/system. It was scrapped because it was perceived esoteric. No one in our team argued against that claim. But bring esoteric didnt mean that it wasn’t also elegant—it probably was. I wish we had all just taken the time to learn it rather than rewrite it.
