Clojure

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

Highlights

• rgets the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Common Language Runtime (CLR) platforms
• Combines the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming
• Compiles directly to JVM bytecode while remaining completely dynamic
• Provides easy access to Java frameworks with optional type hints and type inference
• Shares the code-as-data philosophy and powerful macro system of Lisp
• Predominantly a functional programming language with immutable, persistent data structures
• Offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system for managing mutable state in multithreaded designs