This is about a 17 minute read. Feel free to pause and come back to it later. Clojure is not one of the handful of "big" mainstream languages. This means that sometimes people are surprised that we are all in on Clojure. Why go against the grain? Why make it
  • WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Halfway through reading your comment I clued in that it was a functional language (I didn’t read the article, sorry). Looking into it further, it appears to be a dialect of lisp running on the JVM. Probably not useful for my line of work, but obviously it would be great for web. I keep meaning to re-evaluate functional languages for scripting (I would want an interpreted one though, not JITed). Functional languages are inherently thread safe, which makes them oh so tempting for writing jobs, but the syntax is usually so problematic. I’m glad it’s working out well for you though!

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      3 days ago

      Clojure actually has dialects that run without the JVM as well. There’s Babashka which is Graal compiled into a single executable. I’ve been using it for scripting and it works great. There’s also ClojureScript and Squint that compile to Js so you can leverage that ecosystem, and lastly there’s Janet which is Clojure inspired and can be embedded in C programs. Syntax does take a bit of getting used to if you haven’t used Lisps before. :)