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- Clojure, Common Lisp, DAX, Elixir, Erlang, F#, Haskell, PureScript, Scala
Functional programming is a powerful and elegant approach to tackling complex problems while creating maintainable code. Even though it…
Clojure
Clojure is a modern, general-purpose programming language designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and other platforms such as JavaScript runtimes and the CLR. It was created by Rich Hickey and first released in 2007.
Clojure, along with Common Lisp, are two of the more well-known dialects of the Lisp programming language. Clojure is characterized by its focus on functional programming, immutable data structures, and dynamic programming. It is a compiled language, which means that Clojure code is transformed into JVM bytecode at runtime, making it performant.
Clojure offers a rich set of features, including macros, higher-order functions, and a powerful sequence library. This makes it suitable for various applications such as web development, data analysis, scientific computing, concurrent and distributed systems, and CLI-based applications, among others.
One of the key features of Clojure is its emphasis on concurrency and parallelism. Clojure provides several abstractions for dealing with concurrent and distributed systems, such as agents, refs, and atoms, making writing concurrent code easier.
This section will discuss the history behind Clojure, its installation and configuration, usage of the most relevant IDEs with their respective extensions, syntax, data structures, methods, some of the most used libraries, its most relevant use cases, and more.