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This reminds me of this podcast: https://corecursive.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-software-contrarian-transcript/ https://corecursive.com/david-heinemeier-hanss

This reminds me of this podcast: https://corecursive.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-software-contrarian-transcript/ https://corecursive.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-software-co... In it, the creator of Rails says: > it doesn’t have to be a million person movement for it to be a place where you can live and breathe and work. Um, I mean, I created. Base camp when Ruby had nothing, right? In terms of the tooling that I wanted and I needed to create web applications. I just created all that stuff for myself. By hand. I mean, it’s totally doable And that's how I feel about my choice of using Clojure.

mercer 7y ago
I have the same feeling, with Elixir as my first choice and Clojure as the mistress, so to speak. It's weird to describe it in these terms, but finding both made me feel like finding a home 'professionally'. I'll happily move to other languages if it's necessary and I keep an eye on how things develop, but I've committed to both Elixir and Clojure when it comes to getting good at something. Because both made me enjoy programming again!