Being a n00b, 1 year programming, not formally educated in such, 2 weeks with Clojure I am going to agree. Clojure is NOT n00b friendly. The easiest setup I have ever seen dealt with is python.
* Most n00bs want a "hello world" in an application output (via script or compojure). Not in a repl. The repl is a tool to get you there. In order to do this users should really have a 7 step guide on leinington and optionally compojure, unfortunately it's so poorly documented and incorrectly documented it's frustrating for n00bs. In my case I thought I was downloading the current version @4.0, which quite frankly bites because it won't run version 1.2 clojure, which most blogs use functions from. And almost every blog/doc on leinington is old omits/incorrectly states basic steps.(ie they walk you all the way through to lein uberjar, but don't actually put a namespace in the project.clj example), therefore none of the classes compile). If you're on macsox, and get the namespaces down even then the current leinington release barfs on DS_store files (the hot to trot release doesn't however). Quite frankly I love Clojure, but I TOTALLY agree -> The clojure world is not stable even if clojure core is. The thing is that it's SOOOO close. After days of sifting through all the BS, I don't know why we couldn't have the relevant 7 easy steps documented linked from the front page of clojure.org. To do so however still requires all the bleeding edge versions. My 2 cents. Tim On Jun 27, 3:58 pm, Greg <g...@kinostudios.com> wrote: > This weekend I've been diving head-first into Clojure, and I've documented a > lot of the sticking points that I've run into as a n00b. > > I'd like to share them with the community here, in the hopes that we might be > able to improve the getting started experience for people considering Clojure: > > http://gregslepak.posterous.com/clojures-n00b-attraction-problem > > In the post I cover issues with: > > - Obtaining Clojure > - Running Clojure > - IDEs > - Emacs/VIM > - Build systems > - Documentation > > Cheers, > Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
