The Advantages of Clojure for Jepsen Development
Why is Jepsen Written in Clojure? 🔗
Jepsen is written in Clojure due to its strong support for concurrency, broad client support through Java interop, conciseness and adaptability for prototyping, excellent data structures and standard library functions, "good enough" performance, stability, and mature core. While Clojure has drawbacks such as a small engineering community, lack of a widely-accepted static typing system, and poor error messages, the language's benefits make it a favorable choice for the development and maintenance of Jepsen.