Impressions after a month of learning Clojure through a static site generator project
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speckx
10d ago· 6 min readenOpinion
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Summary
A developer shares their hands-on impressions after using Clojure for about a month to build a static site generator. Despite initial skepticism about Clojure's syntax (three types of brackets), the author finds it surprisingly ergonomic and powerful. They compare it favorably to Common Lisp, noting Clojure feels more cohesive. The article is a personal reflection on learning a new programming language through a practical project.
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Common Lisp is so called because it's a compromise among roughly all the extant lisps
In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language.
I am now generating this website with Clojure (yes, right after rewriting it in GNU Make and shell; I have a problem, ok?).
In a personal tradition, I used writing a static site generator as the project to play with and learn Clojure as a new language.
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