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tech.redplanetlabs.com is the company blog at tech.redplanetlabs.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2020, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on Clojure performance, the company's custom language, and a 250k-line codebase. Commenters cite these posts as sources without judging them.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-03-17
- Clojure, Faster3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-02
- Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-03
What Hacker News says?
I'd say 100% developer churn is the real problem here, no inherited 100kloc codebase is going to be a walk in the park if the original devs are not around. However, I do think that it harder to keep a large code base understandable when using a dynamic language v.s. a statically typed language. Having problems with understanding the shape of expected data is certainly a problem experienced in larger Clojure code bas…
Comment linking /2021/06/03/tour-of-our-250k-line-clojure-codebase
on “Building a Startup on Clojure”Submitted Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase as a story · 373 points
HN discussionI wasn't exactly able to find it's complexity - but here is a blurb about it's performance issues: https://tech.redplanetlabs.com/2020/09/02/clojure-faster/#fi... I think I'm may have been wrong and it's not a complexity issue, but just incredibly slow.
Comment linking /2020/09/02/clojure-faster/
on “Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go”Submitted Clojure, Faster as a story · 127 points
HN discussionhttps://tech.redplanetlabs.com/2021/06/03/tour-of-our-250k-l... has some information about their "custom language". Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27385208
Comment linking /2021/06/03/tour-of-our-250k-line-clojure-codebase/
on “Why I walked away from millions of dollars to found a startup”Submitted Tour of our 250k line Clojure codebase as a story · 60 points
HN discussionLets say that someone wants to improve on Clojure and make a better functional, immutable LISP! What should they start with ? Some things I miss is type support (for easy refactoring, auto documentation and performance), (small) native compilation, support for mobile platforms and their UI's, first-class web-assembly support, real structs and misc things like performant implementations for `first`, `last` and other…
Comment linking /2020/09/02/clojure-faster/
on “Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video”Submitted Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure, Faster as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where we’re going, we don’t need threads: Simulating Distributed Systems as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Serializing and Deserializing Clojure Fns with Nippy as a story · 1 points
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