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by hsx 3234 days ago
When you say it works across Java/JavaScript - could you expand? Can I essentially write Clojure that compiles to JavaScript?
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Clojure uses reader conditionals https://clojure.org/guides/reader_conditionals that allow writing code that cross-compiles between different platforms, and generates platform specific code when necessary.

Many Clojure libraries cross-compile between Clojure and ClojureScript. You can see an example here https://github.com/yogthos/json-html/blob/master/src/json_ht...

Short answer - yes. https://clojurescript.org/
Yes, that's ClojureScript.