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Comment by halvsjur | Hacker News Reader

Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, Groovy and now Xtend. Going to be interesting to see what languages win out in what niches on the JVM.

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Well, recently i started learning clojure, and i am surprised by the size of the community and ecosystem ... its big ... and active

i wanted to learn either scala or clojure and decide to pick the language with tighter java libraries integration (the language that makes it easier to use java lib), and according the the reviews i read, clojure won in that area

if the level of activity around clojure continues at this rate, i believe it will easily outshine the competition

also dont discount jRuby, it has a nice following

People on clojure forum were not very nice. I am learning scala with https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index. Scala guys are very nice and the language is really awesome.

Nothing against Clojure, but I'm curious what you read that made you think Clojure has better Java interop than Scala?

Using Java code from Scala is literally the same as using Scala code from Scala. Same thing if you replace Java with Scala and Scala with Java (with the exception of some Scala constructs that aren't present in Java).

This is not true of Clojure..

a bit late but this is the link where i read it

http://codemonkeyism.com/clojure-scala-part-2/

looked trust worthy to me!

Just to add more to that list, there is also Fantom (my choice of a better Java) and haXe which also deserves a mention, for managing to hit five or six different platforms.

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