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Sooooo ... tell me about conditions & restarts in Clojure these days ;-P On a serious note, a good friend of mine recently evaluated Clojure and fell in love w
by duncan_bayne 12y ago
Sooooo ... tell me about conditions & restarts in Clojure these days ;-P
On a serious note, a good friend of mine recently evaluated Clojure and fell in love with it. Interestingly, he loves it for the same reason I didn't: the JVM.
He saw his life being made easier by great Java integration, I saw the language and tooling being hindered by having to target the JVM. I think we're both right :)
- jwr 12y agoAs a serious (though former) Common Lisper, I recommend you take a look at Clojure. Rich Hickey's presentations are a great starting point. I did, and I haven't looked back — things that I thought would be complete road-blockers turned out not to be a problem at all (no CLOS, no conditions&restarts, Lisp-1, empty list not the same as nil, JVM). And there were things that made life soooo much better (concurrency primitives, STM data structures, ClojureScript, and, yes, JVM (it's better than you think)). Even if you don't start using it, it's worth taking a look.