I dove into Scala before Clojure because lisp was so alien to me. After a couple months of Scala, I still felt like I didn't know where to begin with a blank slate, though I was eventually productive.
When I finally gave Clojure a shot, I was building things my first week. Kinda like my first experience with Ruby.
Clojure felt like a better Ruby to me. The aesthetics that drew me to Ruby were improved in Clojure.
> Is there a reason why Rubists prefer a completely different
> paradigm such as Clojure?
The leap from Ruby to Scala is a larger gulf than Ruby to Clojure, though it's not obvious at a glance.
I dove into Scala before Clojure because lisp was so alien to me. After a couple months of Scala, I still felt like I didn't know where to begin with a blank slate, though I was eventually productive.
When I finally gave Clojure a shot, I was building things my first week. Kinda like my first experience with Ruby.
Clojure felt like a better Ruby to me. The aesthetics that drew me to Ruby were improved in Clojure.
The leap from Ruby to Scala is a larger gulf than Ruby to Clojure, though it's not obvious at a glance.