Clojure 1.9 is now available

Re:Clojure 1.9 is now available by geofft on Friday December 08, 2017 @03:50PM (#15881926)

I am planning on learning Clojure for essentially two reasons: the community / ecosystem seems very active (which is really my primary reason for picking a programming language; I have no interest in writing something if a library exists), and I've heard good things about a couple of things that distinguish it from other Lisps, like maps and spec.

I'm somewhere between indifferent to unhappy that it runs on the JVM, but it's not a blocker for me. And as someone else mentions, it means there's pretty good access to the Java library ecosystem.

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Re:Clojure 1.9 is now available by simongray on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:45AM (#15884764)

The good thing about Clojure is not that it's not married to the JVM. I think the JS implementation has been carrying the torch for the past year because of the many excellent front-end frameworks based on React, which are oddly faster than just using React in JS due to the code-optimisations performed by the ClojureScript compiler and Google Closure. It also has one of the best front-end dev experience in the shape of figwheel, which has become the default for all front-end dev in the language.

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