> The last few months I've started to learn Clojure. Man what a frustrating journey it has been !
I think calling this neuroplasticity is excessive. Clojure isn't trivial.
For a young person who doesn't know how to code it will also take significant time.
Knowing how to code means you have to re-evaluate/re-categorize a set of root assumptions which is objectively hard and there is not really a curriculum fine-tuned for your exact set of existing knowledge.
Maybe you're just more aware of the potential improvements you haven't achieved yet.
I agree with you--let me throw in my experience. In my first dev job, I was 26 (not super young, but also not old). We used Clojure, but I had only programmed C, Python, and Matlab up to that point. It took me a month or two to really grok it, mostly just learning ~40 hours/week.
I think calling this neuroplasticity is excessive. Clojure isn't trivial.
For a young person who doesn't know how to code it will also take significant time.
Knowing how to code means you have to re-evaluate/re-categorize a set of root assumptions which is objectively hard and there is not really a curriculum fine-tuned for your exact set of existing knowledge.
Maybe you're just more aware of the potential improvements you haven't achieved yet.