A modern Lisp on the JVM with immutability and concurrency primitives.
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What is Clojure
A modern Lisp on the JVM with immutability and concurrency primitives.
GitHub Linguist classifies Clojure as a programming language, typically using extensions such as .clj, .bb, .boot, .cl2, .cljc, .cljs.
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A modern Lisp on the JVM with immutability and concurrency primitives.
Common extensions include .clj, .bb, .boot, .cl2, .cljc.
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