My gripe with Clojure is readability. Its like the PERL of FP to me. Why is there so much syntactic sugar to achieve the same thing? Like this line from the art

My gripe with Clojure is readability. Its like the PERL of FP to me. Why is there so much syntactic sugar to achieve the same thing? Like this line from the article: "Eve: Or if you want - no-hash solution." This shit makes me cringe. Just pick one way to to do something, and make that the default in the language. This is why Python is one of the more popular languages today, you can go from 0 to relatively proficient in no time. No FP lang can claim the same thing. And people wonder why after 50 years FP hasn't completely taken off (unless you count javascript). I can read 10 programs solving the same problem in clojure and they can look almost completely different. That is bug, not a feature, I'm sorry. Having "freedom" to do things in different ways just adds cognitive load. We already deal with enough option fatigue in our daily lives, why make it a core part of a language?