[thiago_fm]

I also feel that Om is very complex. I'm sure I've spent over 20 hours trying to wrap my head around it but didn't manage to do anything.

From the people that know it well, they all love it. But I don't seem to have the required knowledge to understand it. I feel somehow dumb by that. The docs aren't good also.

After that, I've tried reagent for 30 minutes and ended up with a lot of progress and I'm currently writing my first cljs small app. Everything seems to work and it's like clojure.

You have an atom and just have to write views in a hiccup style, everything magically works.

Maybe I will try Om later and get it, but it's not simple. I've been able to wrap my head around a lot of concepts with easy in my life, but Om felt too much.

[jimbokun]

"From the people that know it well, they all love it. But I don't seem to have the required knowledge to understand it. I feel somehow dumb by that."

When I get this feeling, it's often because I haven't yet experienced the problems the new thing is trying to solve. Is it possible Om is an attempt to solve problems you haven't encountered?

I have no personal experience with Clojurescript (love Clojure, though), so this is just a generic comment.

[KurtMueller]

I'm learning clojurescript in addition to (eventually) learning Om. I feel like Om provides you a lower level of abstraction than Reagent which is good for building some complicated web apps. However, as a CLJS beginner, Reagent and the re-frame framework have been easy to dive into.

[sgrove]

Pairing with someone who's built a few Om apps should get you up to speed in no more than 45 minutes. I've done it a few times now, and it just takes a few examples, building some components, and composing them together.

[thiago_fm]

I don't know anyone with interest in Om/clojure though :(