Epistemic status: Anecdotes and opinions. I’ve used Clojure for over a decade now: I first learned it in 2012 and started using it professionally in 2013. I’ve been reflecting on what has happened and what the future looks like. In this post, I want to share a few musings about it. Missed opportunity: production REPLs REPL is so central to Clojure that people even talk about REPL-driven development. It’s not just about having a prompt for typing commands like in Python1. Instead, it’s...
