@U04V70XH6 do you mean Kevlin Henney? If so, do you happen to know if he uses / what he thinks of Clojure?

Yeah, Kevlin. I don't know what he's mostly working with these days but, like me, he was a heavy C++ user for a long time. You've encouraged me to ping him and see what he's up to these days 🙂

Mostly I feel he's been focused on language-agnostic testing/process stuff... (reinforced by https://www.slideshare.net/Kevlin/presentations )

Seconded! At my first programming job after self-learning programming, I got this book as a gift from my mentor when we where writing OOP PHP and it helped a lot to put things in more concrete terms than other "too academic" texts at that time

This book is great. I was programming before and when I jumped to Java boat to be industry-level developer it drifted me through pains of understanding codebases. Also it's a modern textbook.

The Head First series is excellent. I’ve read a few Design Patterns books (ironically not including the original/GoF one), and this one is the best.

I’ve never understood the point of that kind of tweet. What is the intended result?

Guess the same could be said about a lot of tweets, much is off-the-cuff stuff. Think the intentation was not to say something about Clojure but more say something about Scala, but somehow managed to drag Clojure into it. In the end, 🤷

Trueee though I meant more in general where people post in a service that it’s dying or how people sometimes join channels here and post, “So this project is dead?” Just seems to happen to most communities I’ve participated in.

The best news I’ve seen all week!

That’ll show him https://twitter.com/eccentric_jay/status/1249116959129645056 or not… because internet.

I saw 1 guy mentioning it on Twitter in the middle of a sentence talking about Scala, then Clojurians replied. Not worth arguing about that, IMHO.

Not unwise, but what’s the harm in showing a strong counter point? Neither party is dragging it out. Worst case it will be ignored.