patrickdlogan

Clojure has a simple functional language foundation that should be good for learning as a first language. The biggest impediment may be the lack of a tutorial from a beginner's perspective, that focuses on that foundation. Using most material for Clojure a beginner will soon be exposed to features probably beyond their understanding.

Not sure I buy the premise "Polling for updates is bad." Certainly reverse http and/or web hooks do not cover, for example, all the same cases as http/atom/atompub. I'd like to see people's guidance on when to consider one or the other.