Why are Clojure stacktraces so long?

Question

I\'ve written some toy interpreters/compilers in the past, so I associate stacktraces referencing lines in compiler source files with compiler bugs.

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Answer 1

Clojure stacktraces are noisy, and that is a complaint that has apparently been heard. Some librairies provides nicer stacktraces, like clj-stacktrace or the expectations library.

But this is something that is also being improved in Clojure itself, for instance with the recent 1.7 release. See also the clojure.stacktrace api.

So I bet it will only get better over time. Things are very exciting in the Clojure{Script} ecosystem right now.