Maybe hyperbole on the frequency, but not the condensation. I meant more along the lines of “most of the complicated code I write in Clojure is an order of magnitude more dense.” _Most_ of the code I write would be 1:1 or 1:2 with other languages, it I don’t think it’s the type of code OP was referring to.
The 1:20+ is definitely not hyperbole though. Using transducers to stream lazy reductions of nested sequences; using case, cond-> and condp->; anywhere where you can lean on the clojure.core library. I don’t know how to give specific examples without giving a whole blog post of context, but 4 or 5 examples from the past year spring to mind.
It’s also often the case that optimizing my clojure code results in a significant reduction of lines of code, whereas optimizing Python code always resulted in an explosion of LoC
Personally I find Python particularly egregious. No map/filter/reduce, black formatting, no safe nested property access. File length was genuinely one of the reasons I stopped using it. The ratio would not be so high with some languages, ie JavaScript
Even with Elixir though, many solutions require 5-10 times the amount of lines for the same thing thing in Clojure. I just converted two functions yesterday that were 6 & 12 lines respectively in Clojure, and they are both 2 pages in Elixir (and would have been much longer in Python)
The 1:20+ is definitely not hyperbole though. Using transducers to stream lazy reductions of nested sequences; using case, cond-> and condp->; anywhere where you can lean on the clojure.core library. I don’t know how to give specific examples without giving a whole blog post of context, but 4 or 5 examples from the past year spring to mind.
It’s also often the case that optimizing my clojure code results in a significant reduction of lines of code, whereas optimizing Python code always resulted in an explosion of LoC
Personally I find Python particularly egregious. No map/filter/reduce, black formatting, no safe nested property access. File length was genuinely one of the reasons I stopped using it. The ratio would not be so high with some languages, ie JavaScript
Even with Elixir though, many solutions require 5-10 times the amount of lines for the same thing thing in Clojure. I just converted two functions yesterday that were 6 & 12 lines respectively in Clojure, and they are both 2 pages in Elixir (and would have been much longer in Python)