The Joy of ClojureScript
11 min readJun 6, 2019
I came across Clojure when I was trying to figure out what language and ecosystem I wanted to spend the next ten years developing in.
The functional programming paradigm is not going away. The dawn of functional reactive programming in Javascript ushered in a new wave of functional programmers, with developers routinely using higher order functions in libraries such as RxJs and Redux. Angular and React are built upon functional concepts.
Javascript is indeed a powerful language, but with the constant churn of frameworks and libraries that require a significant…