What is the first thing you do, when you discover a new language you want to try? Let me guess - you’ll open a new browser tab and google for it. Eventually you’ll end up on the official site searching for “getting started” tutorial in the docs section. On Clojure official site it says “download and unzip Clojure”. Wait, download and unzip? Where is info about my favorite package manager? Why there is only one sentence about leiningen?
There are many questions on stackoverflow from ubuntu users trying to get ubuntu via apt-get or something. I think many problems would be solved if starters go first to this getting started article on community driven documentation site for Clojure. This article is great for newbies.
I accidentally found it in this discussion on google groups titled “Improving visibility of clojure-doc.org”. It’s a pity that I didn’t know about it when I started digging clojure… And I hope that people reading this post will help newcomers and point them to this site.
Great work by Clojure Documentation Team and all it’s contributors. Thank you guys!