Re:Why Clojure? (2018)
by fulafel on Sunday January 03, 2021 @01:27PM
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Compared to Haskell, Clojure, like Elixir and Erlang and Scheme, is a much smaller and simpler language and is easier to learn especially for people without a theoretical CS / math background. This is due to Haskell's ambitious and powerful static type system.
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I'm not sure Clojure is _simpler_. I think Haskell may have more regularity and less variety in language constructs.
I won't dispute that it is more alien to most programmers, though, and that laziness and monadic IO require a bunch of work to get used to.