The nesting level doesn’t necessarily impair legibility, it depends how it’s done. Nesting levels in homoiconic & referentially transparent languages have an im

The nesting level doesn’t necessarily impair legibility, it depends how it’s done. Nesting levels in homoiconic & referentially transparent languages have an impact more comparable to nesting levels in yaml or json than nesting levels in a language like python or javascript. The tradeoff weighs in a completely different way. First you will usually want to write small chunks of code, instead of a large soup. Second, you can make intentional decisions with your use of newlines in order to highlight specific aspects of the code. I find clojure more readable than most other languages… However, bad code stands out horribly (which is actually great if you have at least one experienced engineer in the team- I’d argue there’s nothing worse than bad code that looks normal). Just like anything else, writing good lisp takes some skill. Your specific editor and its configuration will also have a big impact on your experience.