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A lot of credit for that goes to Rich Hickey - from what I can tell, he did a very successful job early on of 1) designing a Lisp with a unique combination of i
by mschaef 7y ago
A lot of credit for that goes to Rich Hickey - from what I can tell, he did a very successful job early on of 1) designing a Lisp with a unique combination of ideas and 2) publicizing it in a way that resonated with a people.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoI agree, Rich has done a great job promoting and maintaining Clojure. BTW, he used to use Common Lisp. I first got to know him (via email) because of his wonderful Java <--> Common Lisp bridge. re: ABCL: this is really a great project. I don't use ABCL very often but when I need it I am grateful to the developers.
- iLemming 7y agoNot just that. Clojure actually has a lot of features. It's not just "yet another Lisp on JVM". here's an excerpt from Joker page (Clojure linter written in Go): Protocols, records, structmaps, chunked seqs, transients, tagged literals, unchecked arithmetics, primitive arrays, custom data readers, transducers, validators and watch functions for vars and atoms, hierarchies, sorted maps and sets. Clojurescript was much easier to make because it was written in Clojure, not Java. IMO if we ever see Clojure that is hosted on other runtimes it will be written in Clojure and probably still will have to depend on JVM.