If you use clojure-mcp/clojure-mcp-light that problem goes away, and that gives it the ability to run a repl and work from it directly. It’s night and day.
Clojure will be around as long as the jvm. It’s mostly done at the core level, most updates are to leverage new host features nowadays. The rest is happily provided at the library level by the community (which is still very prolific).
And it’s not tied to the jvm per say, look at clojurescript (and derivatives) or the upcoming jank.
It’s far from dead. As much as I like CL, the ecosystem is a bit of a desert compared to the jvm.
I click "Create new cluster", I see "Cluster plan -> development" for 0 (zero) euro / month with "Up to 30 worker nodes". When it says "Cluster plan" I don't read control plane, I read cluster.
If there’s any hardware issue on your dedicated box it might take a lot of time until your box gets back up (hours, days…). On a vps it’s less likely to happen in the first place (hvs are usually better quality) and if that happens migration takes minutes.
OTOH, with dedicated servers you can have bad neighbors in the same rack, but with VPS you can have bad neighbors in the same server. I'm using both dedicated servers and VPS on Hetzner, and, anecdotally, I see more consistent network latency on dedicated servers than on VPS.
The prices mentioned in the top comment are for a Hetzner VPS. A dedicated server (bare metal) on Hetzner with the same specs costs a fraction of that price.
That doesn't work well in some conditions, it's not new either.
Some cruise missiles that have TFR (Terrain-following radar) and actually do this already.
It also is not really applicable when you are on a balistic course at *very* high altitude, course correction has to happen early in these case given the reentry speed/constraints.
My dad used to work on certifying, servicing and making custom instruments for planes, subs, prototypes of all kinds of that era (60s to mid-90s).
His “lab” was basically all about testing and simulating environments for the instruments. He had tons of sayings about not having room for error in his line of work. This is as close as you can get from “building bridges” and to this day I don’t think I have seen this level of attention to detail/perfection in any other profession.
His job involved electronical engineering , mechanical engineering and programming amongst other things, not to mention a deep knowledge of the physics of these environments.
Back then also the tools or source of information that were available to them were quite crude compared to what we have now.
His spare time was all about flying, pimping his ham radio gear with all kind of “home made” electronics, build antennas and messing with computers. I guess he’d qualify as a “Hacker” nowadays.
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