I don’t mean to come across as all bitter about it or anything, but with the release of the most recent Clojure survey I went back through the previous results, and it was galling to see error messages come across as the most frustrating thing about Clojure for three years in a row, and mentioned in every survey stretching all the way back to 2011 (though you occasionally need to dip into the raw data to find it). IMO the addition of specs for the core libraries in 1.9 has made error message output easier for machines to parse but harder for human beings to read, so we don’t seem to be going in the right direction here.
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