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Bit offtopic. Would you recommend clojure as a web development programming language? I am from a python background and want to learn a new language. Previously thought of Rust and Haskell, rust seems to be too low level and carries mental burden of manual memory management and haskell seems too complicated for me. Thanks in advance

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I would. Web dev is (for better or worse :) one of the main applications of Clojure. See further at https://clojurescript.org/ and https://pragprog.com/book/dswdcloj2/web-development-with-clo...

Clojurescript today is probably the best, most pragmatic choice to do web dev in. It's not difficult to learn, FFI isn't cumbersome, compiled code is extremely optimized, tooling is pretty nice, syntax is a joy - writing Clojure is like poetry. I would never ever touch vanilla JS or TS (unless I really have to).

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