Re:A to Z of programming languages: Clojure
by charrington on Saturday August 15, 2009 @07:31PM
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I have been learning Clojure casually for a few weeks now. I have been wanting to learn Lisp for years, based on pg's essays. Clojure finally gave me an approachable, useful way to do that.
Pluses so far:
+ Concise code; no ceremony.
+ Best concurrency paradigm I've seen. This is huge to me.
+ Effortless integration w/ Java libraries.
Cons so far:
- Not the most readable language. Reminds me more of Perl than Python. Newbies like me take a while to figure out all the sigils.
- Making Clojure code run fast is non-trivial. Often a speedup-focused rewrite produces code that is much more obscure than the original.
My opinion may change over time, but those are my thoughts currently. I am really enjoying Clojure.
Pluses so far: + Concise code; no ceremony. + Best concurrency paradigm I've seen. This is huge to me. + Effortless integration w/ Java libraries.
Cons so far: - Not the most readable language. Reminds me more of Perl than Python. Newbies like me take a while to figure out all the sigils. - Making Clojure code run fast is non-trivial. Often a speedup-focused rewrite produces code that is much more obscure than the original.
My opinion may change over time, but those are my thoughts currently. I am really enjoying Clojure.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752852