Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-13 Thread Paul Gowder
Another thing worth thinking about is that Cojure(script) is great for pure front-end applications ("single page applications"). The reagent library is a scarily magical way of just abstracting away the dom, and figwheel is a scarily effective build tool. This template is a convenient way to

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-13 Thread Gregg Reynolds
On Oct 13, 2016 12:59 AM, "Mars0i" wrote: > > Others have meatier, more detailed answers. Here's one more factor that might matter: > > Clojure makes me happy. I'm happier programming in Clojure than in other languages that are also very suitable for my projects. I enjoy

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-13 Thread Mars0i
Others have meatier, more detailed answers. Here's one more factor that might matter: Clojure makes me happy. I'm happier programming in Clojure than in other languages that are also very suitable for my projects. I enjoy myself more, and it's easier. I even prefer to use Clojure when I

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-12 Thread James Gatannah
ell. I think your subject question was more interesting (though others have also done a great job addressing it): > Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ? This is the sort of question that you will always have to answer for yourself. Are there good reasons

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-11 Thread Matt Mitchell
My first Clojure "app" was a CLI utility that pulled data from a SQL database, mapped records into another form, and pushed them into a search engine app. It took me about 3 weeks to do that with no lisp experience at all, and I was super rusty on Java at that point. It was "hard", but I

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-07 Thread Nando Breiter
> I want to learn the language and "frameworks" (or how to create the > architecture) much quicker than previous attempt. > I recently came across an excellent course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn that I think can be very helpful for someone trying to learn something

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-06 Thread TR NS
On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 5:39:43 PM UTC-4, Xman wrote: > > It's been many years of postponing learning programming, because I > considered the popular languages of that time not right. > It took me nearly 3 years to learn and build a website using another stack > (I wont advertise

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-06 Thread Sean Corfield
On 10/6/16, 2:05 PM, "'Xman' via Clojure" wrote: > I would like to know if Clojure is a great option to make websites ? Yes and no. There are a lot of folks here building web _applications_ with Clojure and according to the annual informal “State of Clojure”

Re: Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-06 Thread Gregg Reynolds
the On Oct 6, 2016 4:39 PM, "'Xman' via Clojure" wrote: > > It's been many years of postponing learning programming, because I considered the popular languages of that time not right. > It took me nearly 3 years to learn and build a website using another stack (I wont

Should I switch to Clojure after 3 years of learning another full stack ?

2016-10-06 Thread 'Xman' via Clojure
It's been many years of postponing learning programming, because I considered the popular languages of that time not right. It took me nearly 3 years to learn and build a website using another stack (I wont advertise here), and without having much previous knowledge in programming. I have not