Readability? Every programming language suffers from "not enough readability". There doesn't exist any language that is always clear and easy to reason about. W

Readability? Every programming language suffers from "not enough readability". There doesn't exist any language that is always clear and easy to reason about. Writing is fundamentally a method of communication that involves the use of symbols to convey ideas, thoughts, stories, information, or messages. You can mess it up in any language. Clojure, being a Lisp dialect, does not have readability issues. Au contraire, I believe it is far more readable than any other general use, popular language. Once you grok the key features of any Lisp, you may find Lisps (especially Clojure) to be clear and direct, and here's why: 1. Uniformity: Lisp languages follow a consistent pattern. Functions and operators always come first, followed by operands. 2. Minimal syntax: The minimal syntax can also be seen as making the language cleaner and simpler, decreasing the chances of errors. 3. Expressiveness: Lisp allows you to accomplish more with less code, which leads to fewer lines of code and thus potentially easier maintenance and readability. 4. Macros and meta-programming: The ability to extend the language by defining new syntax or deriving new languages can lead to more readable and concise code. This one's pretty much up for debate, because as easily as you can improve the language, you can also make it much more confusing. You know what Spiderman's uncle says. People using non-lispy languages often get excited about certain things, to some of them I can only react with raising eyebrows. I always have a Clojure repl around. Even when I'm not programming in Clojure. Like for example, if I'm testing REST endpoints and sending data back and forth, I configure it in such a way that it always converts the responses to EDN. EDN is far more concise and much more readable than JSON. With the connected REPL I can quickly `filter, map, reduce, group-by, sort, remove`, dedup, slice, dice, and serve the data any way I like. It will take you longer to go through jq's documentation to perform the same data manipulation with JSON. It's an extremely powerful way of dealing with data. With large quantities of data. Clojure is the only language that can turn any impossible-to-navigate-through data and make it precisely readable for me. Readability? Really? Spend some more time using Clojure, you may get surprised how insanely readable it is.