Re:Try Clojure
by iLemming on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:00AM
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> the benefits of persistent data structures are overstated.
Well, what else is overstated?
- Structural editing? Fine.
- REPL-driven development? Okay, let's throw that out the window.
- Hosted nature and the interop? Gone.
- Destructuring? Eh, we kinda have it in Javascript, right?
- Concurrency support? Who needs that shit, anyway, right?
- Simplicity and elegance? Arguable. Some like verbose Typescript code more.
- Functional programming? What the heck is it even?
The point I'm trying to make is that you can't just "remove" an essential part of what makes a language. Rich Hickey took a year-long sabbatical (or was it two or even three years? I forgot) and used his savings to get this aspect of the language right. Without the immutable collections, the language would've been an entirely different beast.
Well, what else is overstated?
- Structural editing? Fine.
- REPL-driven development? Okay, let's throw that out the window.
- Hosted nature and the interop? Gone.
- Destructuring? Eh, we kinda have it in Javascript, right?
- Concurrency support? Who needs that shit, anyway, right?
- Simplicity and elegance? Arguable. Some like verbose Typescript code more.
- Functional programming? What the heck is it even?
The point I'm trying to make is that you can't just "remove" an essential part of what makes a language. Rich Hickey took a year-long sabbatical (or was it two or even three years? I forgot) and used his savings to get this aspect of the language right. Without the immutable collections, the language would've been an entirely different beast.