Why I decided to learn (and teach) Clojure

In 2017 I started to learn more about the universe of Functional Programming. This paradigm was gaining traction and most object-oriented programming languages were adding more and more features inspired by this paradigm, including the language that I used the most: Java.

After the JDK 8 release in March 2014, it became common to hear Java developers using terms like: functional programming, streams, optional, map, flat map, etc. But many people around me still ignored these new features and, I confess, it took me a while to adopt them. The ideas sounded very interesting, but putting them into practice turned out to be more difficult than I expected.

After much trial and error, I decided to dig deeper into the concepts. The book Functional Thinking helped me take my first steps in the right direction.

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