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by ferostar 5665 days ago
You could give Clojure a try, with Ring (an awesome library) and Compojure (a Sinatra-like framework).
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francoisdevlin 5665 days ago
This is an area where JVM interop is really nice, too. You can deploy with well tested & documented web servers.
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beambot 5665 days ago
I'm fairly versed in functional programming and LISP (having grokked PG's "On Lisp"). (Un)fortunately, I have yet to touch Java -- it always conjured images of C/C++, and that was sufficient to keep me at arm's length (I'm a python robotics hacker day-to-day).

My question: How requisite is Java know-how to using Clojure?

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kaffiene 5665 days ago
You need to know what's in the Java libraries if you want to write to the Java libraries. If your code is all self contained, then you don't. So - open a Swing JFrame and you need to know where that is in the API and how to call it.
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