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I've shied away from Clojure because I have no Java experience. However, I really love Lisp, and I'd love to get some practical experience with it.

Has anyone used Clojure as their introduction to the Java ecosystem? Did you survive?

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I had barely touched java, and last time I really did was something like 1.2, but I love clojure for any free time work I do. Stuff like Lein helps hide a lot of the painful parts of the java ecosystem (it even has plugins to build .war files for web deployments if you don't need to heavily configure your web.xml file, as well as hiding class path fun during development). There are also emacs clojure modes/etc and paredit works as well.

I'm a professional c# programmer. You don't need much Java for Clojure, but it's a bit frustrating when you need something from stdlib that doesn't have a native Clojure version. e.g. date handling.

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