Re:Clojure, Faster
by fulafel on Saturday January 09, 2021 @03:58AM
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> I think you really need to have a good grasp of Java to write Clojure well (or you'll develop it as you write more Clojure).
My experience is pretty much the opposite. Java programming experience is not needed. Of course you'll develop your understanding and experience of the JVM platform and some Java APIs as a user over time but that's still far from being comfortable writing Java code. I'll concede that optimizing with annotations is helped by Java experience, especially is it includes Java perf work.
My experience is pretty much the opposite. Java programming experience is not needed. Of course you'll develop your understanding and experience of the JVM platform and some Java APIs as a user over time but that's still far from being comfortable writing Java code. I'll concede that optimizing with annotations is helped by Java experience, especially is it includes Java perf work.