Re:Why I Switched from Python to Clojure (2016)
by tombert on Sunday March 24, 2019 @08:33PM
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I agree; once I beat the initial scariness of Lisp, I found it hard to go to any non-Lisp language.
Macros, while easy to abuse, are kind of a game-changer; the ability to add new semantics to a language make it borderline impossible for me to go to any language that doesn't have a good macro system.
I started with Clojure, which I still really enjoy, but due to how much I grew to love the `define-syntax` system in Chicken Scheme, that's become my latest weapon of choice.
Macros, while easy to abuse, are kind of a game-changer; the ability to add new semantics to a language make it borderline impossible for me to go to any language that doesn't have a good macro system.
I started with Clojure, which I still really enjoy, but due to how much I grew to love the `define-syntax` system in Chicken Scheme, that's become my latest weapon of choice.