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Re:Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (2005) by MrBuddyCasino on Sunday January 18, 2015 @06:19PM (#8909406)
It certainly helps that it is idiomatic to use Java libs in Clojure, and the Maven repository has 800k+ artifacts.
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Re:Lisp: A Cult I Almost Joined (2005) by bmh100 on Sunday January 18, 2015 @06:44PM (#8909483)
No doubt. The ability to create a Clojure wrapper around an existing Java library makes bootstrapping a "new" library much faster, while also providing a bridge to Java programmers.
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