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comment 493408 Comment by RareBreed by RareBreed on Wed 19th Oct
2011 02:54 UTC Member since:  I'm digging clojure a lot. It's
dynamically typed, but you can give type hint metadata to
enforce a type (and vastly increase performance). Clojure looks
like it's interpreted though it actually generates java bytecode
on the fly. If need be, you can AOT compile to interop with Java
better, or for a performance gain, or even just to obfuscate
your code. And there is major work being done by the core dev
team to produce ClojureScript...which generates javascript code.
I know what people are thinking...uggh....lisp...for the JVM
(double ugh). I remember back in college trying to understand
lisp for some AI programming, and I just couldn't get past all
those parens. But clojure is not nearly as overloaded with
parens as most lisps, thanks to [] vectors, {} maps, #{} sets,
and #"" regexes. Just as once upon a time I thought "white space
matters" was stupid i