Re: WAT: JavaScript & Ruby

2016-10-13 Thread Alan Thompson
I cannot think of anything in Clojure as crazy as the stuff in the video; 90% of the stuff in Clojure is a big, big improvement over Java, et al. And a good chunk of that 90% is simply brilliant. Having said that, there are a few WAT type things in Clojure, from small annoyances like the presence

Re: WAT: JavaScript & Ruby

2016-10-13 Thread larry google groups
> Waiting for the Clojure and Scala version. :-} But there won't be. Not ever. Not really. The reason I prefer Clojure over Javascript or Ruby is because so much care and thought went into the APIs of Clojure's core structures and syntax. If you try really hard, you can find the occasional arti