A to Z of programming languages: Clojure

I have been learning Clojure casually for a few weeks now. I have been wanting to learn Lisp for years, based on pg's essays. Clojure finally gave me an approachable, useful way to do that.

Pluses so far: + Concise code; no ceremony. + Best concurrency paradigm I've seen. This is huge to me. + Effortless integration w/ Java libraries.

Cons so far: - Not the most readable language. Reminds me more of Perl than Python. Newbies like me take a while to figure out all the sigils. - Making Clojure code run fast is non-trivial. Often a speedup-focused rewrite produces code that is much more obscure than the original.

My opinion may change over time, but those are my thoughts currently. I am really enjoying Clojure.

Posted here a few days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=752852