Clojurians Log v2

not quite there yet... but do AoC in clojure. or join me in evening code hacking sessions and learn Rama at the sametime

I’ve attempted to do AoC in Clojure a few times

I normally manage like weeks 1 and 2 and then it gets hard…

For whatever reason, I’m more effective in Kotlin these days…

I don't know man, I don't need to be persuaded to use my favourite tech 😄 but the everyday job could get in the way 🥹

The only languages I know are Clojure, Python and Bash so easy choice for me.

unless you include godforsaken YAML/HCL languages like terraform, ansible

Well, nowadays I find myself reaching for Kotlin to solve problems that I previously would have used Clojure for… Kotlin has just enough of the functional programming stuff to be useful… But Thomas suggested I try to do Advent of Code in Clojure this year in order to get back into it. We’ll see.

I think I'd probably switch to Kotlin if I had to give up Clojure... I think it's pretty well designed and it's definitely a "better Java" (whereas Scala is "something else" despite its claims of that title 🙂 )

(I did Scala for about 18 months at work, before we brought Clojure in, and it was nice to be doing FP on the JVM and the XML stuff suited the project I was working on, but those version upgrades were painful)

I never tried Java. I learned Clojure initially just because I wanted to try lisp

I have to read java or js docs to know how to use libraries but dont need to know the syntax

I confess I haven’t looked back at Scala either, since I started using Kotlin 🙂.

I'm humble, I'd be even happy with plain old JS, but apparently people prefer to learn to litter their codebase with some disgusting Partial<Optional<SomethingIDontCareAbout>> | undefined | null | MoreOf<WhateverOtherNonsense> in TS 🤷