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Dan Lucas11:08:14

Hello everybody. Not a professional coder but have been programming as a hobby and for automating various work tasks since the early 1980s. Started off as a kid with BASICs on Commodore PET / BBC Micro / ZX Spectrum, then went on to ARexx on the Amiga, followed by Perl in the 1990s. I began using R in 2009 (still my "main" language), and have recently being doing a bit of Python. However, I always wanted to learn a Lisp, and Clojure library support seems to be more practical for my purposes (e.g. reading PDF files) than Common Lisp. I realise that startup times mean that Clojure isn't an ideal scripting language, but it's not a big issue for my tasks. More worried about tooling, which is frankly complicated, but overall looking forward to getting to grips with this fascinating language. Cheers, Dan

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quoll14:08:29

Fast startup times for scripting was exactly why Babashka was invented: https://github.com/babashka/babashka

quoll14:08:26

So I hope you have fun learning and using Clojure in all the contexts 🙂

Dan Lucas15:08:07

Many thanks, I will check it out - clojurians proving itself to be a useful resource right from the word go!

pez15:08:01

> More worried about tooling, which is frankly complicated Hi @U02CVCL55N0! We have started a channel for trying to improve the getting started story. #improve-getting-started. You are super welcome to join there and share about the worries, and also tell us about bumps in the road that you experience.