babashka was created to mitigate JVM slow startup. It's great for system scripting, automation, etc., basically a lightweight Clojure.
I think any programmer would benefit from learning a bit of Clojure. It's really nice for dealing with data, automation, etc.
I once had to scrape hundreds of videos from a website, and I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I was able to get it right, after setting up Puppetter and Cljs REPL, I interactively, from the REPL "clicked through" things controlling the browser, and created an async pipeline that opened hundreds of pages, looking up for video metadata and delegating the task of fetching videos to yt-dlp.
After learning Clojure and Clojurescript, I felt like all these - Python, JS, and Java are overrated and needlessly messy. I'm so glad I don't really have to directly deal with them daily. Even Lua, which before I had no problems whatsoever, and really enjoyed using, suddenly felt like "meh," and I'm glad there's now Fennel, which is not Clojure, but is very similar to it.
It's been years since I made anything mobile-native. I'll have to be choosing between React Native via Clojurescript and Clojure-Dart - which is very nice.
I am very excited about Jank-lang, can't wait for it to hit the first production-ready release, it will open some new possibilities.
So, I guess, I wasn't completely honest in answering what my "go-to" language is - I really don't care, it's just a matter of picking up a Clojure dialect for it, which itself being a Lisp dialect, is a choice among many other flavors of Lisp. Want to be a true "polyglot" coder? Just grab a Lisp.
I can understand why Lispers are often perceived as "crazy ones", it does sound crazy - "How is it possible for a single language to get absolutely everything right?". Well, no, it doesn't get "everything right", but at the very least the ideas it exposes you to can shield you from having to memorize the weirdness of tons of other languages.
That’s fair, one of the big things I always enjoyed about languages was the communities that form around them, I actually think that’s more important than the language itself. I will say that the Clojure community has to be one of the better ones that exists.
Yeah, the Clojure community is definitely full of great people who are always eager to help. Many times when I've asked seemingly straightforward questions in the Clojurians Slack, I've often received more than I asked for - deep, thought-provoking answers. People genuinely try to give you good direction and guidance.
babashka was created to mitigate JVM slow startup. It's great for system scripting, automation, etc., basically a lightweight Clojure.
I think any programmer would benefit from learning a bit of Clojure. It's really nice for dealing with data, automation, etc.
I once had to scrape hundreds of videos from a website, and I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I was able to get it right, after setting up Puppetter and Cljs REPL, I interactively, from the REPL "clicked through" things controlling the browser, and created an async pipeline that opened hundreds of pages, looking up for video metadata and delegating the task of fetching videos to yt-dlp.
After learning Clojure and Clojurescript, I felt like all these - Python, JS, and Java are overrated and needlessly messy. I'm so glad I don't really have to directly deal with them daily. Even Lua, which before I had no problems whatsoever, and really enjoyed using, suddenly felt like "meh," and I'm glad there's now Fennel, which is not Clojure, but is very similar to it.
It's been years since I made anything mobile-native. I'll have to be choosing between React Native via Clojurescript and Clojure-Dart - which is very nice.
I am very excited about Jank-lang, can't wait for it to hit the first production-ready release, it will open some new possibilities.
So, I guess, I wasn't completely honest in answering what my "go-to" language is - I really don't care, it's just a matter of picking up a Clojure dialect for it, which itself being a Lisp dialect, is a choice among many other flavors of Lisp. Want to be a true "polyglot" coder? Just grab a Lisp.
I can understand why Lispers are often perceived as "crazy ones", it does sound crazy - "How is it possible for a single language to get absolutely everything right?". Well, no, it doesn't get "everything right", but at the very least the ideas it exposes you to can shield you from having to memorize the weirdness of tons of other languages.