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I just inherited a Clojure project, one which I'm quite well acquainted with the business logic, and I find it extremely hard to read. It's very different from the many other languages that I'm comfortable with already. I'm sure with sufficient learning I can get comfortable parsing what's going on, but it is a problem.

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If you can, I'd suggest use spec to improve your understanding and verify behavior. I certainly do know that Clojure can get very dense if you're not careful.

http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2017/6/19/improving-on-types-...

Just out of curiosity, do you have any previous experience or familiarity with FP? Is it the List syntax, the project organization, or the immutable constraints that are the most challenging?

I've built some pretty large apps with Elixir (FP and also has a pipe operator like Clojure). I guess it's the lisp syntax, the deeply nested parenthesis, the prefix notation, etc.

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