Why I am excited about Clojure
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Why I am excited about Clojure
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#2What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
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#3What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
I'll go out on a limb and say that everyone on HN loves Clojure! It seems to be the least cribbed language here. Its features are hard to beat - that and Rich Hickey's wonderful talks[0] make you all the more confident in Clojure as a language!
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#4What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
At a fairly superficial level, the :keyword syntax seems reminiscent of Ruby. But I'm neither an expert Rubyist nor Clojurist (Clojurian?) so I would defer to those more familiar.
Re: Why I am excited about Clojure
#5What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
At a fairly superficial level, the :keyword syntax seems reminiscent of Ruby. But I'm neither an expert Rubyist nor Clojurist (Clojurian?) so I would defer to those more familiar.
There are quite a few things in Clojure that are similar to Ruby. nil? empty? and count all do in Clojure what you'd expect from Ruby. take-while, drop-while are a couple other examples.
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#6What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
I'll go out on a limb and say that everyone on HN loves Clojure! It seems to be the least cribbed language here. Its features are hard to beat - that and Rich Hickey's wonderful talks[0] make you all the more confident in Clojure as a language! [0] - http://www.infoq.com/author/Rich-Hickey
In a community of several 10's of thousands of people saying 'everyone' is always wrong.
To love clojure you'd have to first become proficient in it and I highly doubt even double digits of HN would claim to be proficient, much less to love the language.
In general, you speak for yourself and yourself alone and my take from your comment is that you love clojure.
I have played around with it but not enough to be able to say that I love it, even though I would like to spend more time with it.
I'm sure that when the honeymoon phase is over clojure will be yet another useful tool in the toolbox. I can't recall a single language that I truly love, they all have their specific warts and I expect clojure to be no different in that respect.
Just a different set of limitations to applicability.
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#8I'm a Python user and I love Clojure. I guess I missed the Go bus. But there's 2 things about it I'm not too fond of.
One is due to it's declarative nature (which I love), it's quite difficult to get up to speed with unfamiliar code.
The 2nd is due to it's JVM roots. Those stacktraces, man. And when it happens on an anonymous funtion in a not so documented library, ugh. It's like hitting a brick wall.
The first, I can deal with enough practice and Schema/core.typed. Is there any hope for the stacktraces to improve? How do other JVM based languages fare in this regard?
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#9What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
I'm not exactly a Rubyist, but I really like Ruby. One of the things I like about it is its orthogonality: the concepts you learn work identically or similarly in different places, for different object types (where possible) so a relatively small handful of syntax + ideas + the library docs give you a running start at any program.
The same applies to Clojure. There's laughably little syntax to learn, and once you've got that under your belt you're just composing functions.
I'm not made to feel I've wasted a lot of memory space on the esoterics unique to some particular language. Clojure works for me rather than the other way around. This no-nonsense obviousness was one of Matz' design goals for Ruby, and clearly ditto for McCarthy and Hickey.
Re: Why I am excited about Clojure
#10What is it about Clojure that Rubyists love? I am a Rubyist who is new to Clojure (I love it) and I cant explain it myself. Clojure was suggested to me by several other Rubyists. I find myself suggesting it to other Rubyists as well....
I love learning, especially how to write succinct clean code. Clojure, like ruby, scratches that itch and is fun to work in. It feels written with the intent of making programmers lives easier through mastery.