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Scala was originally released in 2003, and Clojure wasn't released until 2007. There's your difference, I think. I still see Clojure as having a strong chance o

Scala was originally released in 2003, and Clojure wasn't released until 2007. There's your difference, I think. I still see Clojure as having a strong chance of becoming a major language. The language itself is relatively stable now, and the I've noticed the community shift towards making it easier for newcomers to get started and improving documentation.

vosper 14y ago
Interesting point about the relative release dates - I had no idea there's 4 years between Clojure and Scala. Making Clojure easier for newcomers would be a boon - I've battled with setup and configuration each time I've tried to use Clojure. Having a simple but powerful REPL environment like IPython would be fantastic.
- no7hing 14y ago
  Fastest way to start with Clojure (besides the online REPL at http://tryclj.com http://tryclj.com) is to get yourself leiningen (the widely used build tool for clojure projects under: http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen http://github.com/technomancy/leiningen) and a plugin/mode for your editor of choice, do "lein new <your project name>" and start a REPL via "lein repl" to get working.
- kybernetyk 14y ago
  > Having a simple but powerful REPL environment like IPython would be fantastic. Download and install leiningen (http://leiningen.org http://leiningen.org) and then you can start up a repl with 'lein repl'. I wrote a little web app using clojure and when it came to deployment I was really positively surprised: 1) 'lein ring uberwar' 2) copy resulting war file into your tomcat webapps directory 3) you're done There's also a heroku plugin if you don't like hosting yourself. Without leiningen clojure is just unusable though. You have to mess with classpathes and wrapping java command line calls in boilerplate.