Node.js and Javascript Vs. Clojure
clojure javascript
UPDATE: 2017-05-12 A few more thoughts have come to mind after writing the original post.
I realized that I didn’t talk about the clojurescript side of things.
Clojurescript provides a great alternative to plain javascript or ES6. The thing about clojurescript is clojurescript has the clojure standard library, which includes many more functions than javascript.
The left-pad incident made me realize how weak a standard library javascript has. People need to write so many tiny libraries in order to get functionality that would exist in other languages.
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