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Looking at the table in the end of the article: notice how Scala and Elixir both took only 3 years, because they were targeting an existing platform. Clojure took only 2 years and was developed by a single person.

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> only 3 years, because they were targeting an existing platform. Clojure took only 2 years and was d̶e̶v̶e̶l̶o̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶b̶y̶ targeting a single person.

What do you think about clojure?

I like it, and certainly much more than java which I just can't. I have trouble committing to clojure fully for larger projects because it's still a bit niche in terms of the size of the community but nice that it interfaces with java, and for smaller one-off things I just use scheme.

oh, clojure also is a little bit weird being a sort of grab-bag collection of data structures that it inherits from java and then turns lisp-ish. doesn't make it bad, each thing they add is nice, just feels a little motley

also, i refuse to call it "closure", i pronounce the j

> a bit niche in terms of the size of the community

i say it's the largest lisp like community out there tbh.

I like lisp but that is saying your dog is very big for a chihuahua.

also, i refuse to call it "closure", i pronounce the j

Wow so edgy

> also, i refuse to call it "closure", i pronounce the j

Wait, it's not "clodger"?

Bravo, namers of things don't get to instruct the world on how they are pronounced, we will pronounce it as it is spelled. Likewise lie-nuks, ess-queue-ell, ...

Clojure has it’s own persistent immutable data structures, that are one of the main components of the language. They do implement Java collection interfaces, but that’s mostly for passing them to existing Java libraries without conversion (unlike Scala, where you have to convert).

Clojure is a lisp, it basically got to skip the parsing and lexing stages

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