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by reilly3000 2740 days ago
Its often referred to as a guest language. The syntax is largely the same across JVM, CLR, and JS V8. The aim was to utilize the richness and reach of the most popular ecosystems, so all of Maven and npm are available to Clojure devs. The language should be able to be consistent across future runtimes with largely the same semantics.