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In a previous life, I wrote Clojure every day and still look back fondly attending Clojure/Conj and sitting next to Rich Hickey and other Clojure greats at dinn
by mkw5053 6mo ago
In a previous life, I wrote Clojure every day and still look back fondly attending Clojure/Conj and sitting next to Rich Hickey and other Clojure greats at dinner.
My first startup was all Clojure. AWS only had a dozen or two products and I think we must have been the first to compile Clojure to JS and run it on Lambda in production (the only runtime was Node.js 0.10 at the time).
Anyway, I cannot wait to watch this
- xmonkee 6mo agoHow do you feel about it now? Like holistically.
- mkw5053 6mo agoI miss it. I’m now more removed and building software as a means to an end. I miss it just like I miss the program language and type theory group meetups in SF and working through problems in dependently types languages like Idris and being out of my depth.
- wazHFsRy 6mo agoI felt exactly the same, but recently started building side projects again in Haskell and fell in love again. Really brought my passion for software development back. 2026 feels perfect for that, as AI can help with things where one was stuck, not the stuck in a good learning way, forever in the past. Now is the time!
- LandR 6mo agoI love the clojure, but I think a big downside is not being able to use it at work and now work feels like I'm being forced to work with stone age tools in comparison. That gets quite depressing sometimes. Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure. Ignorance was bliss.
- throwawaygod 6mo agoWhat are you using now? how do you feel about clojure now?
- mkw5053 6mo agoI’m no longer in a professional engineering position and have a family and toddler so less time for learning about or playing with program languages. Clojure is what really made me first start thinking about programming languages and down the rabbit hole of scala and Haskell and idris and type theory books. Which are incredible and I can’t recommend more and also not remotely practical.
- chii 6mo ago> also not remotely practical. studying them makes you smarter, which makes you better at using the practical stuff.
- TurboHaskal 6mo agoIt also makes you bitter, at least in my experience.
- mkw5053 6mo agoCompletely agree, I guess I meant if you're writing an application you're going to be a lot less productive using Idris.
- LandR 6mo agoI love the clojure, but I think a big downside is not being able to use it at work and now work feels like I'm being forced to work with stone age tools in comparison. Sometimes I think I was happier before I learned Clojure.
- iLemming 6mo agoI never understood this sentiment. Even if nobody on my team uses Emacs or Vim, or Clojure, Rust, Zig or Nix, or some browser extensions, or any other tool, nobody could ever directly deny me access or restrict the use of any of that on my machine, some vm-box or EC2. And once I prove their usability to me personally, I show that to my colleagues and typically people when impressed they start using them. Once you have more than three people, you can start discussing rolling it out for general use. Just this past year alone, I have convinced my teammates to use a bunch of tools they'd never heard of before.