I have been writing Clojure since 2017. Unlike every other language that helps you achieve a task, Clojure helped me think.
Clojure for me is a rich vocabulary to talk interact with data. When Jank becomes stable, Clojure will be unstoppable.
Clojure for me is a rich vocabulary to talk interact with data. When Jank becomes stable, Clojure will be unstoppable.
Both Clojure and Elixir really changed the way I think about programming. They’ve both basically ruined me as far as other languages go. Structural editing + repo driven development in Clojure, BEAM + pattern matching in elixir.
But there is something just infinitely more fun about writing Clojure code, and insanely satisfying. I’m eagerly awaiting the day that jank takes off and I can start building native mobile apps in Clojure (and who knows, maybe some web backend tech stack will spring up around it!)
Nothing wrong with that, having different target audiences makes sense and is probably preferable, but Janet is more than just "Clojure without the JVM" much like C# is more than just "Java without the JVM".