Clojurians Log v2

Hey! Exciting that you made it to the VSCode channel. I watched the first half before I had to drop off. Hope you convinced some people to try Clojure!

I’m hoping so too. It was very nice to be tossed that question why I was using Clojure when the rest of the world uses JS and Python. 😃

was that in the part where you explained when you were a project manager?

Yeah. I wasn’t prepared for that question at all. Dunno why. I had sort of imagined that the question would be why on earth Joyride uses Clojure. But if thee question is why I use Clojure, it is so simple, it brings joy to my life.

Clojure lures project managers back into dev. it's a testimony to how great Clojure is

I’m hoping Joyride will eventually lure devs into Clojure too. I think there are a lot of drivers, one being fed up with the regular tools and realizing Clojure is not like them. But Joyride can come from the angle of just showing how fun it can be and lure you before you’re exhausted? 😃

I will say that while clojure itself is awesome and tons of fun to learn, all of the tools (namely babashka, joyride and calva) ecosystem around it are what make it so special to me. I started learning clojure because of the Rich Hickey talks and the hackernews discussions about how fun it is, but without babashka and joyride I probably would have never stuck with it! babashka/joyride/calva make it so easy to write clojure in my normal day to day, even when I don't have any "real" projects in mind.

@jhane thanks man. this will go into my collection of screenshots I read on a bad day :)