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Re:The next big language by _delirium on Sunday October 17, 2010 @04:55PM (#1801408)
In that setting, I think F# has an advantage currently, since it's an officially supported/blessed language on Visual Studio and .NET.
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Re:The next big language by frou_dh on Sunday October 17, 2010 @05:18PM (#1801455)
You could say Clojure is a Java library. It's a single JAR file.
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Re:The next big language by _delirium on Sunday October 17, 2010 @05:44PM (#1801519)
To ship it, yes, but there's the compiler, too. With F#, if your organization uses the latest Visual Studio, you're good; but if your shop uses a typical Java IDE setup, anyone who wants to build your project has to do extra work beyond the standard environment (e.g. installing Clojure's Eclipse or NetBeans plugins, with extra fun if you depend on Clojure libs that use Leiningen).
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