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0 pointsaboytsov13y ago0 comments

It's a good point, and I agree it might not be the top priority, but I also understand the frustration. I, too, find 5s start up file rather irritating especially when I make errors in the workflow file, or didn't specify targets correctly. So, we are in search of ideas on how to fix it.

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abraininavat13y ago· 3 in thread

Did you consider ClojureScript and V8? Are there downsides to ClojureScript that would lead you to use Clojure instead?

aboytsovOP13y ago

To be honest with you, no, we didn't seriously consider it. Maybe we should have. I do not know if ClojureScript would be able to work with all the dependencies we have (for example, Hadoop client library to talk to HDFS). But it's a good point nevertheless. I'll mention it in https://github.com/Factual/drake/issues/1.

Thanks!

danpalmer13y ago

I didn't realise originally that Drake integrated with HDFS. Thats a really awesome feature, and I can see why the JVM made sense in development because of existing HDFS libraries.

abraininavat13y ago

Thanks for the response! I ask because I have an idea for a CLI program, and I want to write it in Clojure, but I'm worried about the startup time of the JVM. As I understand it, this issue is mitigated in Drake by the fact that a typical job will crunch lots of data and therefore take lots of time. That's not the case for my program, it needs to be quick.

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