Russel Winder:
On the JVM the interesting question is whether Clojure finally makes Lisp a mainstream language outside of one or two domains.
Clojure contains some interesting programming language design ideas. I have written enough Scheme that now I am sure I don't like to write S-expressions. S-expressions are a puzzle-way to write expressions, and I'd like to avoid solving micro-puzzles all the time. I've seen that idiomatic Clojure code is too much slow for my purposes (there are ways to speed up Clojure code, but only partially and the result doesn't look good). Regarding parallelism in Clojure, I am seeing single-core C/D code faster than idiomatic Clojure running on 4 or 8 cores. I have not done enough experiments, so those are just anecdotes.
Bye, bearophile
