Lee Spector <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>On May 19, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Korny Sietsma wrote:
>
>> Experienced developers (who are likely to grok clojure) probably
>already use one of ant / rake / maven / sbt etc.
>
>"Experienced with what?" is the question. Those coming from the Lisp
>world, who are likely both to grok and to be ready to love Clojure,
>won't necessarily know anything about those tools.

Ditto for experience platform developers where the platform in question isn't 
the JVM.

>>  Even the IDE users probably understand the need to dip into the
>command-line for things like building deployable artifacts.
>
>The need for the dip isn't the issue, IMHO, it's what you fall into
>when you dip -- that is, it's the complexity of what you have to dip
>into, how easy it is to figure out if it's all new to you, how much
>guidance is provided, etc.

This all actually ties back to my complaint that "Simple things aren't simple." 
Working on a web problem set is a "simple thing". Getting to a point where you 
can do that with Clojure isn't.
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