Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
by nepeckman on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @02:44PM
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I can really only speak from my personal experience here. I learned Clojure on my own time in college, and it took some time for me to understand how to deal with things like immutability, laziness, and pure functions. After I did finally 'get' it, I was unable to convince any of my classmates that the initial effort was worth it. I love the language and its opinions, but JavaScript (another language I learned on my own time) was probably 10x easier.
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Re:State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
by jimbokun on Wednesday February 06, 2019 @06:30PM
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"I learned Clojure on my own time in college, and it took some time for me to understand how to deal with things like immutability, laziness, and pure functions."
I suspect much of that time was spent "unlearning" habits from procedural languages.
I know Carnegie Mellon now teaches functional programming as the introductory course, and only introduces advanced topics like "mutability" later. I think that sequence makes it easier for beginners to reason about what their program is going to do and experience less frustration.