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Re:Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013) by technion on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:05AM (#15525976)
The JVM does solve the distribution problem that's heavily frustrated me with other platforms.

I can create a great tool in Ruby for example, but asking a computer illiterate to run it in Windows isn't going to happen.

You can however hand that person a .jar from Clojure and ask them to run it.

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Re:Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013) by megaman22 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:10AM (#15525993)
Assuming they have Java installed. Which, in my experience, is less and less likely as time goes on, for random samplings of non-developer Windows boxes.
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Re:Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013) by kuschku on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:14AM (#15526007)
Not anymore! Java now can link JVM, runtime, and your own modules into a bundle that just works and runs everywhere.

On Linux, you’re even able to compile most of it into a single binary.

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Re:Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013) by megaman22 on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:17AM (#15526015)
Good to know. Does it tree-shake to cut down irrelevant stuff out of thefinal package?
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Re:Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013) by kuschku on Sunday October 22, 2017 @06:44AM (#15526099)
That’s exactly why Jigsaw and jlink were so important, because they provide exactly that.
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