I’m in the opposite boat. I went from Clojure to Java.
I got really tired of “finishing” my work, only to discover that it was riddled with bugs from all kinds of weird edge cases. My favorite is having to use (map vec <thing>) all over the place, because the seq abstraction leaks like a sieve.
To be fair, I also worked in a domain that was extremely poorly suited to Clojure. The “data first” approach of Clojure falls to pieces the moment you have a bunch of data that’s syntactically similar, but semantically different. This requires a lot of cross-method coordination, creating a huge mess and a risk of missed cases.
I got really tired of “finishing” my work, only to discover that it was riddled with bugs from all kinds of weird edge cases. My favorite is having to use (map vec <thing>) all over the place, because the seq abstraction leaks like a sieve.
To be fair, I also worked in a domain that was extremely poorly suited to Clojure. The “data first” approach of Clojure falls to pieces the moment you have a bunch of data that’s syntactically similar, but semantically different. This requires a lot of cross-method coordination, creating a huge mess and a risk of missed cases.