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I have switched between many programming languages, and if you are considering Clojure I would highly recommend it. It is immutable first, which helps eliminat

by sharms 9y ago

I have switched between many programming languages, and if you are considering Clojure I would highly recommend it. It is immutable first, which helps eliminate many classes of explicit bugs and non-obvious anti-patterns. It also works across Java / Javascript allowing for a common code base of business logic across all layers, and with React Native looks and performs well on iOS and Android.

hsx 9y ago
When you say it works across Java/JavaScript - could you expand? Can I essentially write Clojure that compiles to JavaScript?
- lostcolony 9y ago
  https://clojurescript.org/ https://clojurescript.org/
- praptak 9y ago
  Yes, that's ClojureScript.
- sp0ck 9y ago
  Short answer - yes. https://clojurescript.org/ https://clojurescript.org/
- deleted 9y ago
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- yogthos 9y ago
  Clojure uses reader conditionals https://clojure.org/guides/reader_conditionals https://clojure.org/guides/reader_conditionals that allow writing code that cross-compiles between different platforms, and generates platform specific code when necessary. Many Clojure libraries cross-compile between Clojure and ClojureScript. You can see an example here https://github.com/yogthos/json-html/blob/master/src/json_html/core.cljc https://github.com/yogthos/json-html/blob/master/src/json_ht...