Afterword
In March 2022, I attended a friend’s birthday party where I overheard a couple of guys bantering about code. I introduced myself—I was in the market for some coding friends. Once we’d gotten the obvious exchanges of small talk out of the way, one of them dropped a bomb of a question on me.
He asked, “So, what’s your preferred stack?”
All the little bits in my brain frantically searched for an answer while I was simultaneously trying to understand what he was asking me, until finally I very unconfidently answered, “Clojure?”
With a step back and obvious surprise, he exclaimed, “Really?! Like full-stack?”
[Confetti drops in my brain—nailed it!]
In shock, he continued . . . “Front end and back end all in Clojure? I’ve never heard of that ...
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