Clojurians Log v2

Hey, everyone.

@joshua.d.horwitz has joined the channel

@nonrecursive has joined the channel

hey thanks for making this!

now I will lurk here like a creeping creeper

so will I!

lurkers unite!

btw I’m working on some new content and hope to release it in the next couple months or so

a guide to parallel programming and reducers

Yeah... I feel bad making this channel and then lurking

And also I'm not the author 😉

thanks, @nonrecursive. you're awesome

I have your book and you are awesome, wish I was better at learning Clojure!

psh no need to feel bad about anything

you guys are awesome geeze simple_smile

why are you not better, @joshua.d.horwitz ?

and what does kanye think of it?

Just having a tough time grasping Clojure and the functional way

Kanye thinks Kanye is the best Clojure developer

haha

what’s your background? are you coming from an OO language?

Yes

Java developer

😢

out of curiosity, have you tackled scala?

cool… yeah it’s definitely a big mindset shift. this blog post might help http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html

I have not done scala

Should I start there?

no. lol

it just has a slightly more-C-like/less-Lisp-like syntax, but it's crazy hard to wrap your head around (IMHO)

it tries to unite object and functional

i think this talk by rich hickey helped me make the OOP transition http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey

I listened to that talk once and I really enjoyed itI

simple_smile

have you tried maybe making a small, simple app, or doing the 4clojure exercises? (just trying to get a gauge of what might be useful)

Ive done a few 4clojure exercises

15-20

I get stuck quite easily unfortunately

set the channel description: Discuss the blog and book Clojure For the Brave and True <http://www.braveclojure.com/> by @nonrecursive (Daniel Higginbotham).

The 4clojure guy's a cool dude

@gjnoonan has joined the channel