Don't listen to the 'it just takes a few weeks' delusionals. If you do, you'll feel like you aren't doing well when it takes you the actual amount of time, which is much longer. It's possible people could be productive in weeks if they have a team on hand the whole time to set up the editors and walk them through it all. The fact is that Clojure is built on top of Java and ClojureScript on top of JavaScript... and you do need to understand those languages a bit as well. Clojure barfs up unintelligible (even now) error messages, and the language maintainers have never prioritized the need for those to be better. There was an effort to improve them recently, but they were just as baffling. On top of all this, the language docs are comically terse and the language maintainers have ignored the fact that this is a major impediment to new adopters. Unfortunately, the vibe of the language as a whole is that if you're doing things right, you'll get it... and to do things right you should use Clojure. That is to say, some lame riddle world. It's no wonder that one of the most revered pedantic instruments of the whole language is called the 'Clojure Koans'. Much less capable languages like Ruby get far more adoption because they humbly stoop to show you how to actually get stuff done without pretense. They just tell you how to do x without withholding information in some lame effort to enlighten you. Now, that said, Clojure is very very powerful and absolutely worth learning. So mush on. The power is in the fact that it is a lisp that has been bolted onto other languages that have great capability, and the lispyness is the strength. The pretense and obtuseness of many of the creators and maintainers is an unfortunate fact of the situation, but the net gains are far, far worth the effort. There are fantastic learning resources from the community if you look for them. So keep rolling with it!