{"id":9629,"date":"2021-04-15T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2021-04-15T17:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T21:30:05","slug":"reasons-for-clojure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9629","title":{"rendered":"Reasons for Clojure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irreal regulars know that I\u2019ve been exceedingly wishy-washy about learning Clojure. Every time I see a video from <a href=\"https:\/\/cestlaz.github.io\/stories\/emacs\/\">Zamansky<\/a> or someone else using it, I get excited about learning and trying it out. Other times, I get hung up on its running on the JVM and the deviation of its syntax that I\u2019m used to from that of Common Lisp and Scheme.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking through my list of blog post ideas and came across this old piece by Brian Sunter on why he thinks <a href=\"https:\/\/briansunter.com\/blog\/why-clojure\/\">Clojure is a language worth learning<\/a>. Many of those reasons are common to all Lisps but others are unique to Clojure.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the things I like are support for Go-type channels, very strong interactive programming support, and support for destructuring and pattern matching. But the thing I like the most is something that Sunter doesn\u2019t mention: Clojure\u2014more than Common Lisp or Scheme\u2014has a reasonable claim on being or becoming a mainstream programming language. That\u2019s important because if you want to be a Lisper it\u2019s really hard to find a job using Scheme or Common Lisp. It <i>may<\/i> be that Clojure offers those who want to do Lisp professionally a chance to do so. I\u2019m not sure we\u2019re there yet but it\u2019s a least possible that Clojure will gain enough traction to be seen as a reasonable choice for projects. Why not? Plenty are people are using Java and, let\u2019s face it, Clojure is a <i>much<\/i> better language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irreal regulars know that I\u2019ve been exceedingly wishy-washy about learning Clojure. Every time I see a video from Zamansky or someone else using it, I get excited about learning and trying it out. Other times, I get hung up on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=9629\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9630,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions\/9630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}