Steve Shogren: No, Really, Learning Clojure Was Hard - λC 2016

"Everyone says Clojure is simple and easy, right? I'll quick learn it over the weekend!" So started the hardest two weeks of the speaker's development career. Two weeks later, the speaker was still struggling with the basics! Each line of code was a battle to comprehend all the new concepts. S-expressions? Macros? Wait, you can write it either (:key map) or (map :key)?! In hindsight, it looks so easy, the code legible. But when we forget how difficult it can be, we trivialize a new learner's struggles. We have to remember: sometimes learning Clojure is not easy!