I know the author personally, having worked with him for some time before he left. Brilliant guy. He pretty much brought Clojure into our tech stack :)
One of the best and most enjoyable ways to get started with Clojure, very well done. The part on setting up emacs was hugely helpful for a VI guy for me who's mucked around with other Lisp editor plugins.
I bought the pre-release. I hope it starts shipping!~
What a great book. Got me hooked on Clojure.
I wish he made a companion book for more advanced use cases.
I.e. advanced workflows, testing, project layout etc..
I bought the book in the prerelease form after reading most of it online because it was so great! I found it better structured than "Joy of Clojure". Definitely a work of love.<p>An aside, I was a former Raleigh native, and was surprised to see such a Clojure pocket in the area. Made me wish I was still around!
Thanks for publishing this gratis!<p>I've been following along for some months, but put off ordering it because I bought Fogus and Hauser instead.<p>Now there's a deadline on the 30% discount. I'll make a point this week to refer to "Brave and True" as much as possible.
I love when authors make their work available online for free. I usually go through a couple chapters and if I like the book I buy a print copy to support the author (and because I like having the actual book anyway, call me old-fashion)
I used this book to get started with Clojure, and I can't imagine learning Clojure any other way. I still refer to it, most recently for multimethods. I used to search the website for updates before they were officially released (like core.async, iirc). Vividly and clearly written, and very funny.
I've been looking forward to this update for it seems like months. Clojure for the brave and true helped me understand core.async, can't wait to go through and read it again
Hey, this is the book that got me to try clojure out.<p>I'm curious though what do peoples windows clojure workflows look like, as most tutorials I'm seeing are in mac or *nix
Looks great, bookmarked for later reading.<p>Can you give us some insights in how successful is the business model of releasing a book free to read and paid at the same time ?<p>I've seen this trend before and I was always wondered if the authors are satisfied with how much money they get this way.
I'm pretty bummed that this submission is in HN purgatory for some reason, but it's really great to read these nice comments! I'm glad y'all have found the book useful and enjoyable :)