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I can only admire the persistance (free time) of someone coding in Clojure. Everytime someone says to me "I hate Objective-C syntax" I show them Clojure...

If I want fast performance I code in C or other low level language. Sorry Clojure community, I'm not drinking the kool aid this time.

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What's really unique about the Clojure community is that (as opposed to many other language communities) we don't respond to vague handwaving-type flamebaits such as this one.

Most of us just get stuff done using Clojure, quickly, getting concise and most importantly — correct code, even in massively multithreaded applications.

What makes you specifically mention fast performance? I wasn't aware that this was the most important selling point of Clojure. What kool aid is it that you won't drink this time?

For me, Clojure is great because it allows you to build powerful abstractions and has some interesting concurrency constructs, while running on the JVM and making it easy to interoperate with Java code. Of course, being a Lisp, it uses Lisp syntax.

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