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Thanks swannodette, very kind of you! Yes, it's been cool to layer Clojure on top of legacy Java and see what happens. Some want to sell Clojure as "a better Ja

Thanks swannodette, very kind of you! Yes, it's been cool to layer Clojure on top of legacy Java and see what happens. Some want to sell Clojure as "a better Java than Java"... I think that may be a little misguided. But, there are certain situations where it rings true... at least IMHO

swannodette 16y ago
I don't think Clojure's goal is to be "better Java". Rather, that for whatever task you might consider Java, writing that task in Clojure should be: * easier to write * perform just as well * be concurrency safe Clojure isn't there yet, but it's well on its way I think.
- jshen 16y ago
  it's easier to have unsafe concurrency in clojure. It's certainly easier to get it right by default than in java, but it's still very easy to introduce a race condition or some such.
  - jshen 16y ago
    Typo, I meant easy not easier
- nickik 16y ago
  true but you can use it to script java witch would be better then doing it in java.
Luyt 16y ago
Clojure isn't really 'layered on Java'; it does however run in the JVM (just like Java).