alt Hacker NewsIt's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure. I write Clojure fpr my day job and wouldn't want to swap it for anything. The community is small but very helpfull and easy reachable. The learning curve is steap indeed, but very much worth it!
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bitwize • today at 6:36 PM
> It's good to read that Clojure is getting more and more exposure.
I nominate this sentence for "best inadvertent freestyle rap on Hackernews".
Clojure has some pretty big downsides last i looked:
- syntax is hard to read unless you spend a lot time getting used to it
- convention for short var names makes it even harder
- function definition order makes it even harder
- too dynamic for most people's taste
- no type safety
- the opposite of boring
- no clear use case to show it clearly beating other languages
- niche with small community and job market
- JVM
For all those reasons its a hard sell for most imo.