I find Clojure refreshing, but it has too many agendas for me and Java is just (a) no Go. I tried, I did. And launching the repl felt like watching grass grow on my latest/greatest macbook. And if I'm going to use a Lisp in Go, I definitely prefer one designed around Go to one imported from Java.
The Clojure-code I've written, while terse; always feels too far off from what I want to say. I have the same issues with Haskell, too much hoop jumping to take part in someone else's quest for purity.
There's plenty I like in there and Rich is a very disciplined thinker. The languages have much in common. g-fu's way of using environments looks a lot like Clojures use of maps if you squint.
Transducers are brilliant, it's difficult for me to believe it took this long. Which is why g-fu uses [0] them as the foundation for all sequence transformations.
The Clojure-code I've written, while terse; always feels too far off from what I want to say. I have the same issues with Haskell, too much hoop jumping to take part in someone else's quest for purity.
There's plenty I like in there and Rich is a very disciplined thinker. The languages have much in common. g-fu's way of using environments looks a lot like Clojures use of maps if you squint.
Transducers are brilliant, it's difficult for me to believe it took this long. Which is why g-fu uses [0] them as the foundation for all sequence transformations.
[0] https://github.com/codr7/g-fu/blob/master/v1/lib/iter.gf