How do I start learning Clojure?

Tips for Clojure Beginners

1. Learn the essentials with Clojure Koans.
2. Move on to 4Clojure problems.
3. Read a book or two.
4. Learn to develop interactively from your editor.
5. Absorb Clojure’s philosophies and motivations with conference talks.
6. Ask for help when stuck.
7. Don’t panic.

How long does it take to learn Clojure?

I think within one-two weeks you’ll feel comfortable with the syntax and then you will go from there and learn more and more stuff. Clojure ranks high on expressiveness and safness. This means it’s good at business level solutions, but you need to look elsewhere for very low level machine interactions.

Is Clojure easy to learn?

“Made simple” Rich Hickey made it very clear that Clojure is, and will always be, a simple language. Minimal syntax, very condensed and short API, no types. That simplicity, when comparing to other functional languages, makes it relatively easy to learn Clojure.

Where can I learn Clojure?

ClojureBridge hosts free workshops around the world to encourage diversity in the Clojure community. Go to one if you can. There are many groups on Meetup.com that are interested in Clojure and functional programming. Find one in your area and get in touch.

Why is clojure hard?

clojure is hard to learn. Of lisps i know, 10 years of emacs lisp and some scheme/racket lisp, clojure is rather quite different from them, and introduced lots of clojure’s own concepts, such as transducer, and clojure’s metadata, clojure’s “protocol”, clojure’s refs and transactions, atoms, agents.

What is a clojure keyword?

Here’s the Clojure documentation for Keywords and Symbols. Keywords are symbolic identifiers that evaluate to themselves. They provide very fast equality tests… Symbols are identifiers that are normally used to refer to something else.

Is Clojure hard to learn?

That being said, Clojure is very easy to learn. The syntax is radically simple. You quickly go from the stage of “well how do I define a class” (generally, you don’t) to the stage of “why does Java need all that crap?”. Importantly, because Clojure has a REPL you can try things out quickly and interactively.

Why is Clojure hard?

Is Clojure better than Python?

Clojure and Python can be primarily classified as “Languages” tools. “It is a lisp”, “Concise syntax” and “Persistent data structures” are the key factors why developers consider Clojure; whereas “Great libraries”, “Readable code” and “Beautiful code” are the primary reasons why Python is favored.

What is a keyword in Clojure?

Is Clojure faster than Java?

In principle, Clojure can be just as fast as Java: both are compiled to Java bytecode instructions, which are executed by a Java Virtual Machine Clojure code will generally run slower than equiva- lent Java code. However, with some minor adjustments, Clojure performance can usually be brought near Java performance.

Does Clojure have garbage collection?

Garbage is the name of the game in Clojure. That’s why garbage collection was invented. A lot of research has gone into garbage collection, particularly for reducing the amount of time the GC has to pause.