facelessuser

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   by facelessuser 5y ago

   Unless you go out of your way in writing non-idiomatic Clojure like in Java with parenthesis Clojure, Clojure will the slowest of the three by far.
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   by facelessuser 5y ago

   Sure but those are all minor things (and greatly exaggerated) in the grand scheme of shipping stuff and producing value IMO, today, a language being mainstream and its ecosystem matters. You are falling for the exact trap the article warns
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   by facelessuser 5y ago

   but for someone who has been using JS for almost a decade, it is liberating and relaxing to use Clojure. Can you elaborate what you find liberating and relaxing in Clojure vs modern JS? Putting aside runtime features like multi-threading