u/Worried-Theory-860

I have been thinking about Clojure, to be more specific, Lisp. I recently watched the Clojure documentary on Cultrepo. I guess all you need is a pretty woman on your side to build a lang lol.
I have just turned 21, and I do not see anyone is campus using lisp dialects out here everyone is either on TS, C#, Python, or some PHP. Never lisp. Is it going to die?

I read some of Paul Graham's essays, and He loves Lisp and wonders whether there is something I am not seeing. I also read on HN a blog about you will never understand what people love lisp until you try it.(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070298if there is)

Clojure is weird. I looked at the syntanx and my word the (,],{ somewhat turned me off. I later read y'all do not have types. Is immutability strong enough not to, need types?

Everyone is also doing clojure in Emacs. I do not have the patience for Emacs, Vim is superior lol.

What somewhat paused me was nubank. I was surprisedNubank a bank using a Lispwas , untyped system. I mean I thought all of them were just a bunch of java, c# fanboys. Now I want to double check is there something I am missing.

So my question is. Should I pickup this lang. I am more of a TS dude but maybe some lisp will help me understand TS more. What is your clojure story?

I am not asking you to pitch it to me but I want to just understand you all.

I am also trying out scheme mostly because I am watching the MIT SICIP on youtube.

I come a TypeScript background, so for my latest app, it is TS+Express+Prisma+psql . Was wondering what other devs go for? I love types so I usually do not go for RoR. But someone said Clojure has immutability of some sort that you don't need types as much as you think.

Someone mentioned trying ServerPod, but I am a bit skeptical as you can only host it on their platform, so it is NextJS all over again. I like jumping between ts and Dart as these langs are very similar and one teaches me something I try in the other.

I am also reading the wizard book ie the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs,so I might actually try some clojure/lisp.