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by codespin
1989 days ago
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Tooling, ecosystem, and Java are what killed clojure for me. I love the language and the way Rich Hickey approaches it, but I was constantly frustrated with the lack of an IDE and having to stop to deal with Java and Java tooling errors all the time. In the end I felt like Clojure was too clever for its own good. By relying on Java (which was a great choice) it took a lot of the oxygen out of the ecosystem for other devs to build tooling and libraries, and without that there aren't as many people participating or becoming a well known community member from their work there. Again, can't say this was the wrong choice, but in my opinion ecosystem is the #1 thing for a language and the way Clojure was done had an impact on how the ecosystem could grow. |
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What's wrong with Intellij with Cursive?