> I can't memorize all thousands of functions to manipulate lists and hashs in clojure (get-in, map-vals, conj, dissoc, select-keys, sorted-map-by, do you know what all those do?) which do a lot, I felt clojure was dense, the opposite of little cognitive load
In fact you need to memorize 10-20 functions to be productive in Clojure. Many of them are common across the other FP languages and some FP libraries for imperative languages and most of them cover common patterns for vector/map manipulation. Yes, the names could be confusing at first but there is good reasoning and logic behind them so it’s easy to learn.
> because in fact I love how productive I am with Elm
This is interesting because according to Real World App benchmarks Elm implementation has ~4x more lines of code then Clojurescript one [1]. How could it be more productive to write 4x code for the same result?
In fact you need to memorize 10-20 functions to be productive in Clojure. Many of them are common across the other FP languages and some FP libraries for imperative languages and most of them cover common patterns for vector/map manipulation. Yes, the names could be confusing at first but there is good reasoning and logic behind them so it’s easy to learn.
> because in fact I love how productive I am with Elm
This is interesting because according to Real World App benchmarks Elm implementation has ~4x more lines of code then Clojurescript one [1]. How could it be more productive to write 4x code for the same result?
[1] https://medium.com/dailyjs/a-realworld-comparison-of-front-e...