A portion of it has to be because of Emacs. I read all these front page posts because I love Emacs, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I picked up Clojure because I go

A portion of it has to be because of Emacs. I read all these front page posts because I love Emacs, and I’m sure I’m not alone. I picked up Clojure because I got familiar with elisp. The gateway has to be Emacs for a lot of people. And it ends up being a very good first impression for the people who stick around so the cycle builds on itself. The tricks my muscle memory does on its own accord with lisp syntax within Emacs makes programming more fun than any other context.