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I'm sad to see someone so clearly disappointed by this interesting and innovative product. But considering his frustration, I think it's fair he get a refund. But that's not possible, because it is free. In his own words, he writes Clojure all day and loves his job, all because of this interesting and free product called Clojure.

Clojure is far from a perfect language, but what language is? I also love C++ and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks it is perfect.

There are flaws and unique quirks with any programming language. A good language is like a person: it has a personality with all the good and bad that come with its unique bundle of traits.



Just because something is free do not make it holy and free from critique.

I left Clojure because its inherit both Java and Lisp flaws: memory hungry, difficult setup, enterprise frameworks and hard to read, impure and slow.

I believe that there still chance for Lisp in Web Assembly.




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