On: Steve Yegge Grades His Own Predictions

[albemuth]

I took that to mean the language and tooling were hostile, not the community.

[dantiberian → albemuth]

The Clojure community is great, but Clojure/Core has historically not been interested in lowering the barrier to entry with Clojure. I think this is part of what Steve is referring to.

[pbiggar → albemuth]

Would love to hear more about this. AFAICT (from using it every day for 4 years), it's all pretty awesome (except startup time, but that doesn't matter much because REPL).

[camdez → pbiggar]

We're discussing this a bit more on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3jjit5/what_does_s...

[msellout → pbiggar]

The startup time bothered me, as I kept crashing my REPL.