+1 about the Clojure IRC. It's very hard to deal with. I've had a lot of conversations that went something like this: Me: What's the preferred Clojure solution

+1 about the Clojure IRC. It's very hard to deal with. I've had a lot of conversations that went something like this: Me: What's the preferred Clojure solution for this highly specific performance issue that I've tracked down? IRC: Did you benchmark your code? Have you tried using functions? Me: groan Edit: Perhaps there are some people present who want to defend the Clojure IRC channel... I'm being 100% honest with my experiences, only slightly paraphrasing things for humor value. The above conversation actually happened, in a more verbose form.