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In my experience the Clojure community is pretty tone-deaf when it comes to critisim. The usual response being something along the lines of 'your problem is not
by synthc 4y ago
In my experience the Clojure community is pretty tone-deaf when it comes to critisim. The usual response being something along the lines of 'your problem is not a problem, it was meant that way'.
- e3bc54b2 4y ago> In my experience the Clojure community is pretty tone-deaf when it comes to critisim. Its quite frustrating actually. The people who are likely to be greatest advocates of the language (its a new-age Lisp!) are likely to be vocal about its failings, and are also hit with worst reactions like being told their issues are not issues. If you are already part of the team, Clojure folks are very friendly. I want to avoid saying cult, but sometimes it has characteristics of one.
- synthc 4y agoMy theory is that some people get really attached to the language and take criticism to it personal. See the comment above where someone says 'I feel compelled to defend the honor of my favorite language'. It does get cult-like at times, which is too bad as adressing the failings instead of ignoring them would improve the language and increase adoption.
- lgrapenthin 4y agoThe answer is more like "your problem is a feature, you just don't see it yet". Many things are very different in Clojure and can quickly lead to misjudgement like " leaky abstraction" instead of "seamlessly integrated host interop"