Why bother learning Clojure?

4 points by sethev 13y ago ↗ HN

A lot of people have explained why they use Clojure. I'm giving a presentation on Clojure in a couple of weeks and I'm curious about why people who don't yet know Clojure are drawn to it.

So the question if you are thinking about learning Clojure: why?

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lmm 13y ago ↗

If I had a reason to learn Clojure I'd already have done it.

Why I'm vaguely interested: I enjoy functional programming. Why I haven't: I couldn't do without Scala's type system.

sethev 13y ago ↗

Yeah, a functional language combined with dynamic typing struck me as an odd combo the first time I encountered it.

thifm 13y ago ↗

You can turn static typing on in clojure, bro.

bachback 13y ago ↗

I like Rich talks and his main point for his invention seems to be: to get concurrency right.

Clojure Concurrency http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVqrGmwOAw