My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month
A developer shares their experience learning Clojure, noting its ergonomic design and cohesive syntax compared to Common Lisp. The author highlights the language's powerful sequence abstractions and consistent equality operators.
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I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell ; I have a problem, ok?). In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language. While I've long scoffed at Clojure for its copious syntax ( three types of brackets!?), it turns out to be pretty ergonomic and powerful. Here are my impressions after playing around with Clojure for about a month.
Personal technical review with no external bias.
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