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I'll never be as cool as them.
But with AI now is your/everyone's chance!
See also Rich Hickey's remarks on AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLDwbhuNvZo
I've been running my business for 10 years now, relying on Clojure and ClojureScript. It is amazing to be able to base one's livelihood on a foundation that is so stable and well designed. Clojure has been designed by a very smart and very experienced person, and it shows. It has then been maintained and extended by a team built around a culture of maturity and stability, and the result is something you can rely on.…
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But with AI now is your/everyone's chance!
AI might help you with building the thing that you want. But AI can't help you with finding out what is worthwhile wanting. See also Rich Hickey's remarks on AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLDwbhuNvZo
— Rich Hickey, Effective Programs[0]
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=4020s
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A disastrously poor take. I used to work at a Clojure company, and there's no chance I'd ever go back to that.
I've been running my business for 10 years now, relying on Clojure and ClojureScript. It is amazing to be able to base one's livelihood on a foundation that is so stable and well designed. Clojure has been designed by a very smart and very experienced person, and it shows. It has then been maintained and extended by a team built around a culture of maturity and stability, and the result is something you can rely on.…
The very good backwards compatibility is attractive but as the result of the small community, there's also a lot of abandoned packages and fewer QoL packages (formatters, linters, etc); I know there are some but for example I had setup `cljfmt` in Emacs and it wouldn't work, didn't look further.
> `a -> a`; `[a] -> [a]`; It means nothing! It tells you nothing ! — Rich Hickey, Effective Programs [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=4020s --- A disastrously poor take. I used to work at a Clojure company, and there's no chance I'd ever go back to that.
Clojure is the language that made me "understand Lisp", as originally stated by Eric Raymond and citet by Paul Graham: https://paulgraham.com/avg.html It seems like a small thing, but Clojure's choice to open up for other types of parentheses made seeing the structure of lisp programs much easier. This helped me understand how code is data and how macros are functions that can transform both code and data. An importa…