Re:Clojure 1.9 is now available
by raspasov on Friday December 08, 2017 @10:03PM
(#15884032)
+ exceptionally well designed "immutability by default": reduces accidental complexity to a minimum and lets you focus on the problem at hand
+ ClojureScript: allows you to write Clojure for any JavaScript platform (web, ReactNative iOS/Android, node.js) while writing 97% the same language excluding any platform-specific differences between the JVM and the JavaScript runtimes (V8, JavaScriptCore, etc)
+ piggyback on the entire mature+stable+performant JVM ecosystem of
+ ClojureScript: allows you to write Clojure for any JavaScript platform (web, ReactNative iOS/Android, node.js) while writing 97% the same language excluding any platform-specific differences between the JVM and the JavaScript runtimes (V8, JavaScriptCore, etc)
+ piggyback on the entire mature+stable+performant JVM ecosystem of
... + tools (Maven >> npm, cocoapods, et al)
... + libraries (Netty, JodaTime, etc)