I'm used to learning by practicing, so when I learned Clojure, I always kept an eye on chances to write code in it.
Scripting is an excellent field to practice, but the experience is not so good. On the one hand, it's too hacky to wrap Clojure code in a shell script with the shell bang. On the other hand, the startup time of JVM is too long to hurt the user experience.
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