Clojure

Summary

A dynamic, functional Lisp dialect that runs on the JVM, CLR, and JavaScript engines. Clojure emphasizes immutability and provides robust concurrency primitives.

Paradigms

functional, concurrent, declarative, meta-programming, symbolic, modular, agent-oriented, logic

Domains

web development, data science, server-side applications, text processing, data integration

Key Features

first-class functions, closures, macros, destructuring, REPL, interactive development, native FFI, meta-programming

Typing

dynamic system, structural typing, strong typing, partial inference, runtime checking, conservative type coercion, optional type annotations

Compilation

compiled, interpreted with JIT compilation

Influenced By

Lisp, Scheme, ML, Haskell, Erlang, Common Lisp

Ratings

File extensions

clj, bb, boot, cl2, cljc, cljs, cljs.hl, cljscm, cljx, hic

External Links

• Clojure official site
• Clojure jobs at Devjobsscanner
• r/Clojure subreddit
• Trending GitHub repositories