[logistark]

Having to maintain more than 42k LOC of Clojure code, couldn't agree more. I would also add that i haven't see a community with such fanatism towards a language and his creator. So i always avoid to interact with the community.

[iLemming]

I don't know what you're talking about. I've personally worked in several language ecosystems and interacted with members of their communities. Clojure people are one of the most humble, reasonable, friendliest people in the entire CS universe. Many of them have years of experience working in different languages, they are not fanatics, most of the time their answer to the question "is that the right way?" would be "it depends."

While devs in other programming language ecosystems either debate endlessly or rush to add more "features" to their language, Clojurists quietly make things that simply work.

If you follow the trends and dig a bit more, you realize that Lispers carefully filter out good ideas and put them into use, they know how to tell the difference between a brilliant idea and a fad.

And there's no fanaticism and worshiping of language creator. Only respect and gratitude.