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My answer to: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/pcwypb/us_engineers_love_to_say_the_right_tool_for_the/ which asked to know when and at what is Clojure "the right tool for the job"?

My take is that in general, the right tool for the job actually doesn't matter that much when it comes to programming language.

There are only a few cases where the options of tools that can do a sufficiently good job at the task become limited.

That's why they are called: General-purpose programming languages, because they can be used generally for most use cases without issues.

Let's look at some of the dimensions that make a difference and what I think of Clojure for them:

Introductory resources

High level overview https://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html
An Animated Introduction to Clojure https://markm208.github.io/cljbook/
Interactive tutorial in a browser https://tryclojure.org/
Interactive exercises http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
Clerk notebooks with introductory examples https://github.clerk.garden/anthonygalea/notes-on-clojure
More interactive exercises https://4clojure.oxal.org/
Lambda Island tutorials https://lambdaisland.com/
Functional Programming with Clojure resources https://practicalli.github.io/

My 2Do tasks

This is just contents of my never ending lists of tasks I tagged in 2Do with read, watch and check tags.

All lists are sorted by priority. I hope to bring all these lists closer to 0 when I get time. But until then, perhaps you will find something interesting in them.

Here are the lists I share so far.

Read
Watch

Free O'Reilly Design Books and convenient script to just download them.

HUGE thanks to O'Reilly for making this resource free. Visit the design page if you want to learn more about the design resources. Also, they do have FREE resources for other topics like: Data, IoT, Programming, Security, Web Development, and WebOps.

Thanks @augbog for the initial gist. If you are a developer or looking for software engineering books, headover to the source of this fork.

How to use:

Take the download.sh file and put it into a directory where you want the files to be saved.
cd into the directory and make sure that it has executable permissions (chmod +x download.sh should do it)

Rich Already Answered That!

A list of commonly asked questions, design decisions, reasons why Clojure is the way it is as they were answered directly by Rich (even when from many years ago, those answers are pretty much valid today!). Feel free to point friends and colleagues here next time they ask (again). Answers are pasted verbatim (I've made small adjustments for readibility, but never changed a sentence) from mailing lists, articles, chats.

How to use:

The link in the table of content jumps at the copy of the answer on this page.
The link on the answer itself points back at the original post.

Table of Content

2021 Update: Easiest option is Justin's repo and image

Just run this from your Mac terminal and it'll drop you in a container with full permissions on the Docker VM. This also works for Docker for Windows for getting in Moby Linux VM (doesn't work for Windows Containers).

docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

more info: https://github.com/justincormack/nsenter1

Free O'Reilly books and convenient script to just download them.

Thanks /u/FallenAege/ and /u/ShPavel/ from this Reddit post

How to use:

Take the download.sh file and put it into a directory where you want the files to be saved.
cd into the directory and make sure that it has executable permissions (chmod +x download.sh should do it)
Run ./download.sh and wee there it goes. Also if you do not want all the files, just simply comment the ones you do not want.

	#
	# cqlsh_intro.cql
	#
	# Copyright (C) 2017 Jeff Carpenter
	# Execute the commands in this file for a short guided tour of the CQL Shell (cqlsh)
	#
	# For more description, see Cassandra, The Definitive Guide 2nd Ed., Chapter 3: Installing
	# http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920043041.do
	#

	#!/bin/bash
	docker run --name cdh --hostname "quickstart.cloudera" --privileged=true -t -i -d \
	-p 80:80 \
	-p 7180:7180 \
	-p 8888:8888 \
	cloudera/quickstart /usr/bin/docker-quickstart

	docker exec -ti cdh /home/cloudera/cloudera-manager --express



	private void setupNetwork() {
	// Call your network creation method
	Network network = getExampleNetwork();

	// Subscribes and receives Network Output
	network.observe().subscribe(new Observer<Inference>() {
	@Override public void onCompleted() { /* Any finishing touches after Network is finished */ }
	@Override public void onError(Throwable e) { /* Handle your errors here */ }