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Re:REBL by cutler on Monday April 10, 2023 @05:21AM (#35510532)
Out of the box Clojure gives you:

- Real immutability

- Persistent data structures with structural sharing

- A real Lisp REPL not a Python console

- 650 builtins to wrangle data in ways yo never imagined possible

- The JVM and JS platforms

- Rich Hickey

That's a pretty good deal I think. By contrast Python has crippled single statement lambdas, late binding footguns and weird scoping. No contest. Ruby is much better at what Python tries to be as it wasn't designed by a BDFL who dislikes functional programming.

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Re:REBL by BaculumMeumEst on Monday April 10, 2023 @07:34AM (#35511178)
i know it wasn’t a serious list item but including “rich hickey” in a reply to someone who expressed reservations about joining a cult is probably the opposite of convincing
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