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Clojure

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Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for...

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  • lisp
  • programming
  • concurrent

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  • Developed by

    US flagRich Hickey
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Clojure was added to AlternativeTo by ttmrichter on Feb 9, 2010 and this page was last updated May 12, 2021.

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ttmrichter
Feb 9, 2010
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I have a love/hate relationship with the Lisp family. I liked Dylan (the Lisp that doesn't have Lisp's syntax) and pretty much every other Lisp I merely admired intently. I couldn't stand programming them.

Clojure is the first (and thus far only) Lisp-alike I've encountered that I both admire AND could see myself programming in without breaking out into hives.

What is Clojure?

Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine (and the CLR ). It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.

Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

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