Java is COBOL of our era. Soulless, business, a lot of typing and searching. You just keep on fixing it. It did advance a bit but ... sigh. Clojure invented too late I supposed.
Sad it goes to such places.
Sad it goes to such places.
It's quite good that we have a rather performant, cross-platform, GCed language.
I also didn't feel any epiphany while learning Clojure. I think Haskell is a much nicer language for some tasks, but going full-Haskell seems near impossible without a PhD in some obscure academic niche.
My perfect programming language would be a Jupyter Notebook-like thing where I can just add sections in whatever makes sense. Write some imperative Java, put a small Haskell block for a function that recurses nicely, put a Minizinc block to solve a constraint... Of course, nobody except the original author would feel comfortable with those exact choices... which explains why companies must standardise on something.
The real issu with this approach in my opinion is that a stream of bytes is just too generic, and the necessary (de)serialization is going to eat a lot of CPU for not useful task
Clojure wants to be data oriented, I recommend watching a lot of Rich Hickey talks first to "get" Clojure