Former Ruby guy reporting in. Started using clojure a few years back, but have been serious about it recently. I can't explain how pleasant the language is. Everything just makes sense, and once you get the tooling sorted (which is admittedly a bit convoluted), it such a beautiful environment.
I've always been an emacs user, so clojure was a match. Emacs + cider for repl-based development has been an amazing productivity boost. I wanna shout from the rafters and tell everyone that this is how it should be done! I don't even want to imagine working in another environment anymore.
The Lisp enlightenment is real, in that I started to see code differently -- more in the sense of homoiconicity. I realized I began to lose the distinction between code and data. Everything just merged. The clouds didn't part nor did I ascend to a higher level of being as promised -- but it was definitely a "whoa" moment.
Enough of my blubbering, just wanna say keep up the good work! The language has brought back the fun of programming for me.
I've always been an emacs user, so clojure was a match. Emacs + cider for repl-based development has been an amazing productivity boost. I wanna shout from the rafters and tell everyone that this is how it should be done! I don't even want to imagine working in another environment anymore.
The Lisp enlightenment is real, in that I started to see code differently -- more in the sense of homoiconicity. I realized I began to lose the distinction between code and data. Everything just merged. The clouds didn't part nor did I ascend to a higher level of being as promised -- but it was definitely a "whoa" moment.
Enough of my blubbering, just wanna say keep up the good work! The language has brought back the fun of programming for me.