[graue]

Did you ever look at Clojure? If not, why not? If so, what didn't you like?

While Clojure surely has a bigger learning curve than Go, it's much simpler and more approachable than Scala. I've learned it recently and am an absolute convert. It seems perfect for your use case and you could even skip writing the prototype in Rails because you'll be just as productive in Clojure.

Note that I'm not trying to convince you to change; you obviously found something that works for you. But I am curious if there were obstacles to using Clojure (missing libraries? poor tutorials?) and if so, how that could be fixed.

[neya]

Thanks! I will give it a shot :) The main reason I chose Go was for the learning curve for my fellow devs. But if clojure is only slightly higher in complexity, I would definitely give it a shot..thanks :)

[kvtrew76557]

A Lisp family language is hardly more approachable than Scala. I found Java -> Scala pretty smooth, but can't make head or tail of Clojure code as it looks completely different to languages I've used before.

[graue]

Interesting perspective, thanks. I suspect it depends on whether you're more used to langs like Ruby, Python, JavaScript (which are more like Clojure) or Java (which is more like Scala). Coming from Python and JavaScript, and with minimal Java experience, I find Clojure more approachable... but then, Java-style OO is utterly vexing to me.

[jbeja]

I love clojure buti rather use clojurescript since i find it more useful for may needs and usecase.