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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by hsx on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:47AM (#14928593)
When you say it works across Java/JavaScript - could you expand? Can I essentially write Clojure that compiles to JavaScript?
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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by yogthos on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:55AM (#14928646)
Clojure uses reader conditionals https://clojure.org/guides/reader_conditionals that allow writing code that cross-compiles between different platforms, and generates platform specific code when necessary.

Many Clojure libraries cross-compile between Clojure and ClojureScript. You can see an example here https://github.com/yogthos/json-html/blob/master/src/json_ht...

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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by sp0ck on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:49AM (#14928603)
Short answer - yes. https://clojurescript.org/
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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by lostcolony on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:48AM (#14928599)
https://clojurescript.org/
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Re:Clojure will affect the way you think about programming by praptak on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:49AM (#14928601)
Yes, that's ClojureScript.
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