Clojure, the language, and Rich Hickey, the vision, have had a tremendous impact on my programming career. Transformations of data as the primary building block

Clojure, the language, and Rich Hickey, the vision, have had a tremendous impact on my programming career. Transformations of data as the primary building block for writing code was such an enlightenment. I absolutely encourage you to continue your endeavor of learning Clojure, as it’s almost guaranteed to be a net positive. It’s just the stewardship of the language that is my biggest problem. It’s very anti-community (as evidenced by this rant), and in general there is a tendency of “elitist” mentality the more you get into the core community. If you’re able to ignore all that, and just do your own thing, you’ll be fine.