[japanman425]

>artificial lisp superiority syndrome

I giggled at this. Regularly, and in this thread, whenever some DSL req or LISP is mentioned you get these holier than thou comments about how LISP is the best thing since sliced tomatoes.. similarly with diehard vim/emacs users.

[iLemming]

Also, regularly, on almost every post mentioning Clojure, there's at least one person who comes with some emotionally charged, unsubstantiated anecdotes, ranting about how bad it is.

"I tried looking at Clojure code once, around 2015, and I wish I went blind..."

They can't live knowing that many people enjoy writing Clojure. This dystopian world makes them feel really sad. "These schmucks don't even know how miserable their days are. I need to tell them that they are so damn wrong, and maybe I can heal their heresy and fallacious excitement..."

People get excited about Clojure not because it has a cool logo or because of Rich Hickey's terrific hairstyle. There are many good, objective reasons why they like it and prefer it to other tools. Because of those objective reasons, Clojure is used in big corporations and small startups.

Usually, there's nothing wrong with excitement about a good tool you like. Almost always, everything is wrong with hating a tool and hating people who like it.

[epgui]

Not every engineer is subject to learned helplessness. Some engineers never gave up on finding better tools, and have done just that.