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by zintinio5 3283 days ago
I've wrapped C and C++ code via the JNI and called it from Clojure. There are a good number of projects wrapping C code in Clojure. It's a little awkward (Clojure -> Java -> JNI -> C), but works well enough.

We get around the startup time by keeping our work either in the REPL, or just having large enough tasks that the loading is dwarfed by the time it takes to get started. Webdev might be a little crappy if you're used to the turn-around cycle of either node or PHP.
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zurn 3283 days ago
In web development you live-reload code in the running Clojure app, so turn-around time is excellent.

(ClojureScript has very good live reload support as well)

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zintinio5 3283 days ago
There can be problems with state management, which I've only seen with our web application. Sometimes a hard stop / start is what you need unless you designed the application for reload-ability. We're working towards that for our web application. Frameworks especially seem to exacerbate this problem, since you have limited control over the execution of your program.
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