What are you using now? how do you feel about clojure now?
replyI’m no longer in a professional engineering position and have a family and toddler so less time for learning about or playing with program languages. Clojure is what really made me first start thinking about programming languages and down the rabbit hole of scala and Haskell and idris and type theory books. Which are incredible and I can’t recommend more and also not remotely practical.
reply> also not remotely practical.
replystudying them makes you smarter, which makes you better at using the practical stuff.
How do you feel about it now? Like holistically.
replyI miss it. I’m now more removed and building software as a means to an end.
replyI miss it just like I miss the program language and type theory group meetups in SF and working through problems in dependently types languages like Idris and being out of my depth.
I felt exactly the same, but recently started building side projects again in Haskell and fell in love again. Really brought my passion for software development back. 2026 feels perfect for that, as AI can help with things where one was stuck, not the stuck in a good learning way, forever in the past. Now is the time!
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