My take is that more and more people are "rediscovering LISP" or are at least open to the idea of learning about them, and Clojure (this is going to wipe out my

My take is that more and more people are "rediscovering LISP" or are at least open to the idea of learning about them, and Clojure (this is going to wipe out my karma points) is a very good place to start your LISP-like journey. When I started learning LISP+Clojure (yea ok purist Clojure might not be a perfect LISP or deserving of the name). There were a lot more Clojure tutorials and help out there than there was for CL (Common Lisp). I usually start my new language journey by watching lots of Youtube tutorials, it gives you a broad-overview of landscape, before I dig into the code. The other opinion why it's getting trendy again might be that, "the modern coding landscape" is not much "fun":S Learning JavaScript(the modern guide), js-frameworks, Rust (yea it's good, but not fun). Clojure is really fun :) Once you are used to an "interactive workflow" like evaluating and testing a function right then and there it's hard to go back to coding function in a file and running the whole program to test. And I've said it in a few comments yesterday as well, anyone starting out with Clojure just tell yourself "It's Maps All The Way Down".