Re:Clojure 1.9 is now available
by simongray on Saturday December 09, 2017 @02:36AM
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I think your description is fair, although I feel like you could have started with the Clojure/ClojureScript combo for making SPAs in your first comment. That is really the biggest driver of Clojure right now, the fact that it has a mature compile-to-JS implementation that can share source code with the backend.
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I think ClojureScript is very nice and I often recommend it to any Javascripter.
I sincerely thank Hickey for liberating us from Java and plain Javascript. I think that if Clojure was pitched more as substitutes of Javaxx and less as "the improvement over Lisp", many of us Lispers would be happy. As I mentioned, it isn't an improved Lisp; it is a different language with a different (valid) philosophy which some will like.