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by iLemming 754 days ago
> Do you think learning Clojure would get me something in addition to that

For me, the biggest benefit is that it's hosted. Learning only Clojure, I can easily today write for JVM, .NET, JavaScript, Flutter, or shell scripts. Even when I need to write Lua, I'd usually pick Fennel. It's not Clojure but feels very similar. There are libs that can give you Python or R interop from Clojure. There are projects to target Golang, Rust or Erlang. Jank is a super interesting, experimental implementation of Clojure that runs on LLVM, I'm very excited about it. Do you want to become a true polyglot programmer? You only need to learn Clojure.
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ducktective 752 days ago
>For me, the biggest benefit is that it's hosted...I can easily today write for JVM, .NET, JavaScript, Flutter, or shell scripts.

Isn't CL better for this? You are not bound to some VM and you can produce native binaries.

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iLemming 752 days ago
I can't really say. I know you can (for example) use LispWorks to write CL for mobile, targeting both - Android and iOS, but I think there would be greater friction to keep it cross-platform, each platform's nuances would have to be handled differently, it's not going to be very unified codebase (I think).
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