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by tionate 1303 days ago
Clojure is tiny in that there are very few special forms (less than 20 according to [0]) and most things are just plain functions.

More importantly, it is developed extremely conservatively which means

1) you don’t need to learn the syntax/feature of the month (like eg javascript/python)

2) the code you wrote a decade ago will still work.

That said, it does sit on top of Java/JS so you can access those parts easily if you need to.

[0]: https://clojure.org/reference/special_forms

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This sounds excellent! I will have a look at it.