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0 pointsqwertyuiop9249y ago0 comments

Well, first off, I don't really like Java or the JVM. That in itself is a pretty strong reason to not get into Clojure.

Secondly, I don't really like Clojure as a language: It's strongly opinionated, and made some unorthodox (for a lisp) design choices which I dislike.

Finally, Clojurescript is really heavyweight, dragging along not only its own runtime, but also the google closure library and compiler, making the entire system more complex than it needed to be (was there any reason we needed to have a closure dependancy?).

Don't get me wrong, Clojure isn't an objectively bad language, it's just a language I personally dislike. If you have similar tastes to me, you may not like it either. OTOH, You may thibk it's The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread (TM). That's fine, I just won't agree.

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sooheon9y ago

Not an expert, but having dabbled in cljs, I think this misrepresents it. The closure dependency makes things arguably heavier at dev time, but at compile time it allows for a lot of dead code elimination and other optimization that makes the actual output much more light weight. It doesn't slow down development, but allows for a much better product to be deployed.

qwertyuiop924OP9y ago

Fair enough. However, as I've mentioned, there are other reasons I dislike clojure.

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