Clojure's creator himself

 This week we heard he podcast Rich Hickey on Clojure. A very valuable podacst and where we learn a lot of insights from its own creator. He explained why he saw the need to create a dialect for Lisp which is Clojure. The ins and outs of it, how it works and his vision for it going forward. It was quite interesting to hear what he had to say in such a personal way which is a podcast. 

He stated that Clojure was born with the idea that there should be a simpler way to use Lisp, one which felt more natural like language. This is something interesting because before I ever engaged with this programming paradigm I never really thought about that until now, I was so used to programming in imperative and object oriented environments that I never realized how unorthodox and complex it can get when you think about it as if you were reading something in your own language. Approaching Clojure having this mindset and taking into account that the intention of all the syntax is simplicity really makes it easier to code in this programming paradigm. 

From what I've seen, within the community, Lisp is still the way to go for them. There is still some escepticism towards the newer dialects and how robust they can be. I'm still not aware of all the advantages we can take out of a functional programming language like Clojure and the main differences between this and Lisp, but it's pretty interesting to learn more about it from the creator himself, and really wonder all the possibilities within my reach when developing in Clojure.