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Re:Learning Clojure Made Easy by connormcarthur on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:29PM (#15397416)
In a production environment: Clojure combines all of the resources of the Java/JVM environment with a nicer (in my opinion), dynamic syntax. It also has the best standard library of any language I have worked with, bar none.

From a learning standpoint: Clojure and other functional languages are worth using because they make you approach problems differently, and in doing so you become a better programmer.

Source: used Clojure in production building a real product for ~3 years

Re:Learning Clojure Made Easy by agumonkey on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @05:56AM (#15399310)
If compared to non recent java, clojure turns KLoC in LoC. Remembering raw swing vs seesaw gui makes me dizzy.

Also, remember that when java devs were tired of suffering bloat, they invented gui designers to hide it. Now you have two problems.