Have we all forgotten the principle "make the minimum amount of WTFs per minute" already?
Why is everybody so content with their technology and so quick to look down upon people who aren't familiar with the traps in it? Is it really so wrong for your technology to be easy and painless not only at the entry level, but all the way to middle-high level of professionalism?
No, that would be _wonderful_. Unfortunately, "easy" is only one dimension along which we must make tradeoffs. Clojure has chosen one point in the design space for input validation vs performance. You're free to have a different preference.
As a relatively mature man and a programmer for me the way a project is maintained is just as important as the ability of the technology itself.
This post helped me make a conscious decision to not work with Clojure. If I am gonna learn a new language and technologies I prefer the least possible amount of surprises, because when I inevitably stumble upon them I'll be shamed as "not active enough to research beforehand".
Yes. In fact, this is partly what clojure.spec is about; which the original author calls out as being wrong to prioritize for some unknown reason.
I have zero idea if that's the case, though. I'd be glad to work with a technology if I had a polite and constructive person such as yourself to help me out when I am really stuck.