Electric Clojure
Shares rank 50 of 63 web frameworks by recommenders
Lets client and server code share one file, which people call elegant and well suited to real-time multiplayer apps.
Lets client and server code share one file, which people call elegant and well suited to real-time multiplayer apps.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Elegant handling of complexity
“If you know of any other snippet of code that can master all that complexity as beautifully, I'd love to see it.”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated” “Client and server code co-exist in the same file, it really is a thing of beauty.”
Comment from 28 Jun 2026 in “Why has the web become so complex?”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| Electric ClojureThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Client and server code co-exist in the same file, it really is a thing of beauty.”
“If you know of any other snippet of code that can master all that complexity as beautifully, I'd love to see it.”
“especially suitable to real-time multiplayer apps built in frameworks like Electric Clojure”
“You might be interested in Electric Clojure”
“Two extremely powerful things that would be awful not in Lisp”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.