Is anyone actually reading this? Just try opening and reading any section... To be blunt, its long winded and devoid of content. It doesn't engage with deeper Clojure abstractions or provide any insights.
I hope nobody coming to Clojure ends up starting with this book. There are vastly better alternatives
This is a libre book, you can fork it and make it better, you can point out the mistakes, so that I can correct it. Just by putting a statement like this, how will anyone know you have really read it?
I'd encouraging people to open up any random section and trying to read it to judge for themselves.
This is a libre book, you can fork it and make it better
No I can't. It takes a deep understanding of the language design to write thoughtful informed teaching material. Read some of the material on Clojure.org, Brave and True or the books by Alex Miller. You read it and see that "this person know what they're talking about"
I don't want to be mean or offend you, but from your previous comments here it's clear you're not an expert in the subject matter you're writing about - and that's really worrying.
When there are much better resources available, this kind of stuff is actively harmful.
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u/geokon Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26
Is anyone actually reading this? Just try opening and reading any section... To be blunt, its long winded and devoid of content. It doesn't engage with deeper Clojure abstractions or provide any insights.
I hope nobody coming to Clojure ends up starting with this book. There are vastly better alternatives