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by silver-arrow
1225 days ago
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Excellent and very productive language. Personally, I did 15 years of straight Java (before that C and C++), then 5 years of Clojure. For me, the most telling dynamic is when I recently returned to a Java project and realized how much better Clojure is - even for large projects ;) The lack of static typing, which is so often used as an argument against Clojure, is actually what makes Clojure better. The Java projects become a morass of types scattered into a myriad of packages; no matter how experienced you are with Java. Clojure's dynamic underpinnings and its paradigm of hundreds of functions for a few data structures allows for very lean designs that are easier to wrap your head around and keep in your mental models. The other features are just gravy: immutability built in, REPL interactivity, Transducers, Protocols etc. I felt the pain going back to a Java project. |
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