In a community of several 10's of thousands of people saying 'everyone' is always wrong.
To love clojure you'd have to first become proficient in it and I highly doubt even double digits of HN would claim to be proficient, much less to love the language.
In general, you speak for yourself and yourself alone and my take from your comment is that you love clojure.
I have played around with it but not enough to be able to say that I love it, even though I would like to spend more time with it.
I'm sure that when the honeymoon phase is over clojure will be yet another useful tool in the toolbox. I can't recall a single language that I truly love, they all have their specific warts and I expect clojure to be no different in that respect.
Just a different set of limitations to applicability.
To love clojure you'd have to first become proficient in it...
I do not think that the GP was using 'love' in that sense. You can 'geek out' about news and information about something without actually being much involved in that something at all. Witness the popularity of posts about space launches on HN. I doubt that there are very many actual rocket scientists, but we sure do have a lot of people interested in progress made in space.
Love for space travel and love for a programming language are two different things entirely, the one is an adventure on an almost trans human scale the other is a way to tell a computer what to do.
>To love clojure you'd have to first become proficient in it and I highly doubt even double digits of HN would claim to be proficient, much less to love the language.
I'm pretty sure many times more than 99 HN people have used Clojure extensively. Heck, there have been posts here from teams using it in production on their startups.
To love clojure you'd have to first become proficient in it and I highly doubt even double digits of HN would claim to be proficient, much less to love the language.
In general, you speak for yourself and yourself alone and my take from your comment is that you love clojure.
I have played around with it but not enough to be able to say that I love it, even though I would like to spend more time with it.
I'm sure that when the honeymoon phase is over clojure will be yet another useful tool in the toolbox. I can't recall a single language that I truly love, they all have their specific warts and I expect clojure to be no different in that respect.
Just a different set of limitations to applicability.