Clojure

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “I've been getting such excellent results from LLMs with Clojure”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-07-11

• “Switching between different Lisp dialects is far less mentally taxing, even when they operate in completely dissimilar runtimes. I have seen days when I needed to jump between CL, Clojure, Fennel, Elisp and Janet and from all practical points it felt like almost using the same language everywhere.”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “fascinated by lisp but only had the time to mess with clojure for about a year”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “If there's one thing I've been happy with learning Common Lisp and Clojure is that you only want libraries for things like algorithms, data formats, and protocols/interfaces.”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-07-10

• “the 1.13 release is going to DRY a lot of existing and future Clojure code”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-07

• “Clojure spec is still in alpha, but "alpha" in Clojure land basically means: "more stable and less likely to change than any feature in any other language"”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-06

• “I like Clojure syntax even more than CL and Scheme because of the map and vector literals.”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-06

• “basically impossible to read Clojure outside the editor in any meaningful sense”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-07-06

• “Clojure is full of macros that do useful things :) Simplifying oft-used patterns into compact representations is very on-brand”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-07-06

• “The holistic experience of using Clojure often can beat systems with advanced static types”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-24

• “when writing Clojure apps the JVM always reserves absurd amounts of heapspace on my machine (to my annoyance)”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-19

• “I do love that I learnt Clojure once like 5-7 years ago and more and more dialects keep expanding the choice of runtime I can target”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-15

• “suddenly made Clojure/ClojureScript feel much more clunky and I felt I can have a lot more fine grained control and performance with much less ceremony/effort”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “Clojure isn't merely "good", I'd say it is dominant compared to a lot of other langs.”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-09

• “type errors are rare in Clojure and generally caught in the REPL or by tests, since the moment you go down a branch with a type error an exception is thrown”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-06

• “In Clojure you typically program to interfaces/protocols and not to types”

  MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-05

• “That's my top issue with Clojure: I see what the function does, but is it expecting a list, a string, either, or a map?”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “there is something seriously right about Clojure's design that makes this easy to do”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-04

• “Clojure runs on the JVM and avoids mutability pretty well. It is amazing for writing concurrent software, and has been for many years”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “when working with clojure, even on the blasphemous mutable jvm runtime, that class of bugs is non-existent”

  POSITIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “coming from other functional languages my problem was not Clojure”

  MIXED · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “one particular detail i'm very grateful to Clojure for, is exactly the ability to use JVM runtime without having to touch any Java”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “Clojure is a very successful language. It has been in stable development for >10 years now, with no major breaking changes (!). I was able to start a business using it and now make a living from it, all of it possible largely because Clojure reduces incidental complexity so much”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “after going functional in Clojure, I can't imagine going back”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-03

• “hooking an LLM up to the clojure repl lets it write WAY more complex stuff. I'm talking like 10x more complex programs with zero errors”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-06-02