The problem isn't knowing or not knowing Clojure.
The worst codebases (and that is true of other languages just as for Clojure) that I have seen are ones done by people who are intelligent enough to learn every feature of their language and any little trick available on the internet but haven't yet had the chance to acquire the wisdom on when to use them or what to use them for.
Re:The Future of Clojure
by thisiszilff on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:38PM
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I guess the appeal of clojure in that case is that the language is a lot simpler than other languages.
Ok, but how much of that is just them not knowing Clojure? I've found people that get handed down a code base in a different language tend to hack their way around it, instead of like, pausing for a minute, take some time to learn the language, and then come back to it.
Maybe in your case it was a terrible code base of low quality, but I'm just curious.