Welcome aboard! Fasten your seatbelt, it will be a wild (and exhilarating) ride. I'm still relatively new, but I've learned enough to know that clojure (and clojurescript and Datomic) are what I need to be focusing on. Besides all the other benefits, it's just plain fun. I haven't had this much fun or felt as empowered as a programmer - well, ever.
You are spot on about the community as well. It appears to me that the clojure community has made a conscious effort to avoid the mistakes of the LISP communities in the past, and it shows. I think another part of it - for me at least - is that once you discover the power and sheer joy of a better way to solve problems, you just want to share that. BTW, I followed a similar path as you, picking Scala over Clojure for most of the same reasons. But Scala never took with me. I always had the feeling I was headed in the wrong direction with Scala. This was before I started watching Rich Hickey's talks, but I think I just intuitively knew that adding complexity as Scala does was not the solution to our problems. I had been down that road before with numerous technologies (OSGI, reprogramming, model-driven-whatever) and it's the same thing - trying to simplify by adding complexity. To me, that makes about as much sense as trying to spend your way out of debt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
