I haven't found that true, especially compared to any other language at this stage of development (complicated by the lack of the modern Internet, but I'm thinking especially about C++).
E.g. I'm helping someone with a web application and I've found no need whatsoever for Datomic (PostgreSQL + korma is just fine), I gather that means Edn is irrelevant, Core.async appears to be less than a year old, so I'm not surprised it might be lacking in documentation, and I don't see it as critical for a lot of applications, including mine. Clojurescript: we'll see, I do engines, and would prefer to continue to have others do almost all of that side of things.
Granted, it did take me a while to find and get up to speed on a set of libraries to do the web app I'm working on (mostly CRUD with some non-real time backend external communications), but it's been relatively pain free. I started with a recommended set, then as I found I needed to do something new, like JSON, I found a good library in a few minutes with Google and didn't find it at all difficult to fold it in.
Did change after a bit my form validation library to Red Tape, which modulo one detail (limited data available to form level cleaners (functions that act on more than one item in the form)) is superb.
And "superb" in general describes my experience doing all this. And I fully expect documentation and other learning resources to continue to improve as Clojure gets greater acceptance.
(Disclaimer: I'm an old Lisp and Scheme hand, e.g. not someone who had to learn anything conceptually new to use loop and recur. I could see the above plus learning basic functional Lisp concepts to be brutal if you're new to everything.
On the other hand, I can remember the days when learning MACLisp required reading an old David Moon manual and then the archives of a mailing list following it's publication; thank goodness there was a really great Lisp Machine Lisp manual and they were just starting to be somewhat available to use and learn on.)
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I haven't found that true, especially compared to any other language at this stage of development (complicated by the lack of the modern Internet, but I'm thinking especially about C++).
E.g. I'm helping someone with a web application and I've found no need whatsoever for Datomic (PostgreSQL + korma is just fine), I gather that means Edn is irrelevant, Core.async appears to be less than a year old, so I'm not surprised it might be lacking in documentation, and I don't see it as critical for a lot of applications, including mine. Clojurescript: we'll see, I do engines, and would prefer to continue to have others do almost all of that side of things.
Granted, it did take me a while to find and get up to speed on a set of libraries to do the web app I'm working on (mostly CRUD with some non-real time backend external communications), but it's been relatively pain free. I started with a recommended set, then as I found I needed to do something new, like JSON, I found a good library in a few minutes with Google and didn't find it at all difficult to fold it in.
Did change after a bit my form validation library to Red Tape, which modulo one detail (limited data available to form level cleaners (functions that act on more than one item in the form)) is superb.
And "superb" in general describes my experience doing all this. And I fully expect documentation and other learning resources to continue to improve as Clojure gets greater acceptance.
(Disclaimer: I'm an old Lisp and Scheme hand, e.g. not someone who had to learn anything conceptually new to use loop and recur. I could see the above plus learning basic functional Lisp concepts to be brutal if you're new to everything.
On the other hand, I can remember the days when learning MACLisp required reading an old David Moon manual and then the archives of a mailing list following it's publication; thank goodness there was a really great Lisp Machine Lisp manual and they were just starting to be somewhat available to use and learn on.)