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What % of the overall benefits would you attribute to the JVM vs. Clojure (the language)?
by alberth 3y ago
What % of the overall benefits would you attribute to the JVM vs. Clojure (the language)?
- jwr 3y agoI barely even care about the JVM. I'm happy because it is an impressive feat of engineering, representing tens of years of huge investment into development, compiling my code to levels of performance that poorer VMs cannot reach. But JVM is just one of the environments where my code runs (the other is the JavaScript VM in browsers).
- iLemming 3y agoClojure is not only on JVM. There's Clojurescript. There's ClojureDart. There's ClojureCLR. There a bunch of experimental things like ClojureRS (Rust) and Clojerl (for Erlang). You can "talk to" Python and R from Clojure. You can use Fennel if you need to deal with Lua (It's not Clojure, but it's very Clojure-like lang). The benefits are there, for any platform you choose.