My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month

6 hours ago

Clojure was chosen for a personal project to learn the language by rewriting a static site generator.
Clojure is more cohesive than Common Lisp due to a unified design, offering abstractions like seq for consistent sequence handling.
It is more pragmatic than Scheme, with a larger standard library and JVM integration for a rich ecosystem.
Clojure provides ergonomic data structures, including lists, vectors, hash-maps, and sets, all treated equally in the core language.
Criticisms include having more syntax than traditional Lisps and the challenge of not knowing Java, the underlying JVM language.
Despite some pain points, Clojure is enjoyable and practical, with plans to continue using it and explore through projects like Project Euler.

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