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Whether it's as important now or not is a different matter I suppose, with various targets for the language (including other VMs), but I don't think it's in dis
by shadowmint 10y ago
Whether it's as important now or not is a different matter I suppose, with various targets for the language (including other VMs), but I don't think it's in dispute that originally the extensive java ecosystem was core to what clojure was, and was designed to be.
...but hey, don't take my word for it:
The net result is that the prospects for Clojure going forward are
very good. The core model of Clojure has held up well and continues to
appeal - accessible, robust, thread-safe, efficient dynamic functional
programming, on a world-class infrastructure, with a huge set of
libraries. Oh yeah, and it's great fun!
- Rich Hickey, 2008
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/2CA_H58Cbo0
- mtrimpe 10y agoThat might have referred to the CLR and the JVM though since Clojure has targeted both runtimes from the start (although the JVM implementation is leading of course.) This talk should go into a bit more detail about this: https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/charles/emerging-langs-clojure-and-f https://channel9.msdn.com/blogs/charles/emerging-langs-cloju...