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Re:How practical is Clojure? by bigbango on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:45AM (#2964581)
ClojureScript won't have the startup time of the JVM and is probably better suited for command line scripting.
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Re:How practical is Clojure? by beza1e1 on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @04:30AM (#2964689)
Why don't they integrate something like nailgun? Run a JVM in the background and redirect command line execution.

http://www.martiansoftware.com/nailgun/background.html

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Re:How practical is Clojure? by scottjad on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @05:45AM (#2964880)
People have done that with Clojure, see cake and jark. There are tradeoffs.
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Re:How practical is Clojure? by ibdknox on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:50AM (#2964597)
That is incorrect. It needs the JVM to compile, but once compiled it's pure JavaScript... so the startup time would only be node's.
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Re:How practical is Clojure? by pufuwozu on Tuesday September 06, 2011 @03:51AM (#2964601)
Good point. Thanks!
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