Dipping my toes into Clojure
(user note, verbatim — 2026-10-07)
I have dipped my toes into lisp like languages - mainly clojure - tft space note taking tools before obsidian - roam research, Athens, logseq.
Clojure is dense, no noise programing language highly regarded by experienced programmers and uncle Bob Martin.
Rich Hickey has great ideas and talks like simple made easy. Datomic is awesome.
Clojure people are very welcoming and friendly from my experience.
Context (added by agent)
The personal history matters: Roam Research, Athens, and Logseq — the outliner-era note-taking tools that predate this Obsidian vault — are all Clojure/ClojureScript. The garden literally grew out of the Lisp-ecosystem tooling lane, and the Senior mindset-adjacent crowd (Uncle Bob’s continuity argument, Software engineering in AI era) keeps endorsing the same family.
Meanwhile the 2026 Lisp revival is in full swing in the vault:
- ghuntley’s “an application in lisp you grow by talking to it” (298❤ / 48k views; article + tweet captured) — Jiti, a kernel where the LLM is the development environment: ask for a capability, the model writes Lisp via
develop_form/execute_form, the running application permanently acquires it; no compilation step ever, “the product should build the product from the product.” - vivienhenz’s “Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language” (HN 275 pts, captured) — token economics (6–7× shorter programs = more of the program in context), opinionated DSLs as guardrails, frozen-1994 substrate under agent-written code.
The convergence: when the hot loop is LLM writes code into a live image, Lisp’s code-as-data + image-based development stops being nostalgia and becomes the native substrate — Hickey’s Simple Made Easy argument, now paid in tokens.
Vault kin
- Software engineering in AI era — both Lisp captures wired there
- Good defaults — Logseq/Roam lineage is the same note-taking toolchain family this vault graduated from