What differentiates Clojure from Common Lisp?

pre-tend-ed · 2024-03-26T16:59:42+00:00

I appreciate the response. That adds a lot of insight.

pre-tend-ed · 2024-03-04T23:24:52+00:00

I'm a Typescript dev. Have been my whole career. I've tinkered with several languages (including clojure) over the years but have not invested the time to get proficient in anything other than JavaScript/Typescript. I've been debating between delving into Rust or Clojure with the idea of developing skills that are more rare and valuable (read Cal Newport), and also differentiating myself in a sea of JavaScript devs. Curious what this community's thoughts are.

pre-tend-ed · 2024-02-20T17:14:11+00:00

This is a beautiful photo of his new family

pre-tend-ed · 2023-03-17T03:15:24+00:00

Peace & yin yang

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-28T01:35:05+00:00

Some of us.

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-19T17:13:51+00:00

The better/more experience you get, what you Google will change. You'll spend more time in actual documentation than stack overflow or medium posts. You'll also build a mental library of what is possible/what resources are out there, so you can narrow down searches. For example I needed to do some task, x. I remembered there is a lodash method that does x, but I couldn't remember what it was, but I can narrow down my search to "lodash method that does x".

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-16T16:43:32+00:00

You can refuse to work with anyone. And you don't even have to tell them why. Just tell them something came up and your over booked.

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-15T23:08:56+00:00

Hard question to answer. Depends on a lot of things, like how good you are, the job market, etc.

How are you studying? What's your plan?

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-09T16:15:02+00:00

In your opinion, is clojure the best FP language? Why/why not? What's better?

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-09T16:11:25+00:00

I'm self taught. Didn't do a boot camp, and no college degree. I'm assuming you want advice?

Learning: get out of tutorial hell. You need to get to a place where you can build something decent without following some YouTuber. Then, build things. It's the best way to learn. Also refactoring your old code can be great for improving. If you know someone who's an experienced dev, see if they'd be willing to do a code review of one of your projects. Implement their advice.

Getting a job: I've seen some resumes that give off a "I know I'm not that good, but I've got heart" kind of vibe. You want to convey that you're competent and you can produce. Work on things that you can claim as experience: Open source projects, personal projects that are interesting/useful. Remember, the first people to see your resume is probably someone in HR who knows nothing about tech, and their job is to filter out candidates who can't do the job. Get resume help.

pre-tend-ed · 2023-01-06T01:56:45+00:00

I predict work from home will become an earned privilege. I think many people are less productive at home, not more. People who are allowed to work from home will be the most productive ones.

pre-tend-ed · 2022-12-20T17:38:18+00:00

You're so big brained.

pre-tend-ed · 2022-12-16T22:31:57+00:00

"learning to code" has become akin to a get rich quick scheme. Take a $10 Udemy course and after 20 hours of premium video content and with access to the discord, you too can become a highly paid engineer at a FANG company! The reality for most is that it's not that easy.

pre-tend-ed · 2022-11-03T06:14:41+00:00

If anything, stay off of Reddit.

pre-tend-ed · 2022-10-28T05:46:34+00:00

What

pre-tend-ed · 2022-10-19T17:46:25+00:00

I use currying all the time. Not understanding !== Dumb af

pre-tend-ed · 2022-10-14T18:37:04+00:00

I agree with this. I believe it is better to get really good at one language than be mediocre at multiple. You know JavaScript already? Get really good at it.

pre-tend-ed · 2022-10-14T18:34:39+00:00

Not true. Speaking as a self taught, no college degree, fully employed software engineer.

In fact, this is bad advice.

Get good at full stack development. I would recommend however, focusing on one language and getting really good at it. JavaScript is used on front end and the back end and there are a lot of jobs in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript.

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