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Yep, Clojure made some nice improvements (still 4 parens, however), but I just can't get excited about the JVM.

• hellofunk 9y ago
  > (still 4 parens, however) My example has 2 parens. Even if you're not excited about the JVM, ClojureScript is particularly productive for front end development, where I genuinely love it tremendously.
• technion 9y ago
  The JVM does solve the distribution problem that's heavily frustrated me with other platforms. I can create a great tool in Ruby for example, but asking a computer illiterate to run it in Windows isn't going to happen. You can however hand that person a .jar from Clojure and ask them to run it.
  • megaman22 9y ago
    Assuming they have Java installed. Which, in my experience, is less and less likely as time goes on, for random samplings of non-developer Windows boxes.
    • kuschku 9y ago
      Not anymore! Java now can link JVM, runtime, and your own modules into a bundle that just works and runs everywhere. On Linux, you’re even able to compile most of it into a single binary.
      • megaman22 9y ago
        Good to know. Does it tree-shake to cut down irrelevant stuff out of thefinal package?
        • kuschku 9y ago
          That’s exactly why Jigsaw and jlink were so important, because they provide exactly that.