ClojureScript Next

1 · David Nolen · July 29, 2015, midnight
I've been enamoured with languages in the Lisp family ever since I first encountered The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs now more than a decade ago. At the time I was disappointed that such beautiful systems found so little use in day to day programming. Lisp seemed both deeply pragmatic (Objects!) and deeply sophisticated (Meta-circular Interpreters!). But Java, bless its heart, was the language of the day, and despite Steele's characterization, it seemed miles away from Sc...