# Electric Clojure

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Electric Clojure and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Lets client and server code share one file, which people call elegant and well suited to real-time multiplayer apps.

## Why people recommend it

- Elegant handling of complexity (2 comments): "If you know of any other snippet of code that can master all that complexity as beautifully, I'd love to see it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479971)) "Client and server code co-exist in the same file, it really is a thing of beauty." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707689))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Electric Clojure", https://hackerapproved.com/p/electric-clojure/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).