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You don’t see them in the same sense you don’t see multiple closing braces in java or c. The style in lisp is to keep all the closing paren on the same line: )))) But in java or C …

Fair enough, I see your point. Though stylistically my personal preference is for the macro to remain as simple as possible with limited syntax introduced.

Note I said "or looks like one". If you squint a bit, macros and built-ins are similar in structure to functions (they're all s expressions). I agree with much of what you said, bu…

In lisp, nearly everything is written in the same form. I.e. everything either is a function call or looks like one. Once you know that, you pretty much know lisp syntax. People fr…

JetBrains based editors are quite nice if you can afford it. Free for students and open-source developers. PyCharm for python, IntelliJ for java, Cursive for clojure

Another java library with persistent/immutable datastructures is javaslang.

From my experience several years ago: Distributing binaries for Linux was complex. libstdc++ compatibility across distros or different versions within a single distro wasn't great.…

Many have already said it, but Clojure seems to be gaining in popularity.

I used to have an issue with lisp syntax until someone pointed it out to me like this. In c and java like languages, you invoke a function like this: f(x) In lisp, just move the pa…

Forgot to source my info on the "om" library. http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/01/om-react

On the surface, you wouldn't think immutable data structures would offer any significant performance gains. But there are a lot of cool techniques and unforeseen consequences that …

nice, thanks!

It is a little clearer to me how this works with things like primitives, but how do you annotate a function that takes a map as input and returns a list? (defn my-keys [m] (keys m)…