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What? Clojure is not similar to Scala at all. Its learning curve is not that steep, because it allows you to learn things "à la carte" - you can pretty much lea
by iLemming 7y ago
What? Clojure is not similar to Scala at all. Its learning curve is not that steep, because it allows you to learn things "à la carte" - you can pretty much learn it while building things. I have personally met several people to whom Clojure was the very first language they learned. I once give a book to our test automation engineer, and a week later, he has built a dashboard (for test runs) in Clojurescript. He was like: "I am very much surprised myself how quickly I was able to build it." It was a wild mish mash of all sorts of libraries, weirdly looking non-idiomatic Clojure code, but it was a completely functional app.
- commandlinefan 7y ago> Clojure is not similar to Scala at all. Like I said, I don't know much about it other than it's a pure functional language that compiles to java byte codes, so I lump it in with Groovy and Scala which are both in the same family. Maybe it is easier - Groovy and Scala (as much fun as they both are) definitely aren't. Isn't it as "pure" a Lisp as they can get away with and still run on a JVM though? Lisp has sent many worthy men screaming for the hills.