Rama is a testament to the power of Clojure
It took more than ten years of full-time work for Rama to go from an idea to a production system. I shudder to think of how long it would have taken without Clojure. Rama is a programming platform …
See the first report in this series in this series for context on our goal of teaching LLMs to one-shot complex backends at scale. To summarize, we’re working towards one-shotting a scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance implementation of the entire Matrix spec, which is orders of magnitude more difficult than…
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It took more than ten years of full-time work for Rama to go from an idea to a production system. I shudder to think of how long it would have taken without Clojure. Rama is a programming platform …
In the book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a two-dimensional world called “Flatland” is inhabited by polygonal creatures like triangles, squares, and circles. The protaganist, a square, is…
Rama is a platform with huge applicability, able to express all the computation and storage for a backend at any scale. Just like the UNIX philosophy of composing simple programs to do more complex…