Simplicity and Power in Action
All of the distinctive features in Clojure are there to provide simplicity, power, or both. Some of these features include concise and expressive programs, the power of Lisp updated with a modern syntax, an immutable-first approach to state and concurrency, and an embrace of the JVM host and its ecosystem. Let’s look at a few examples that demonstrate these high-level features.
Clojure Is Elegant
Clojure is high signal, low noise. As a result, Clojure programs are short programs. Short programs are cheaper to build, cheaper to deploy, and cheaper to maintain. This is particularly true when the programs are concise rather than merely terse. As an example, consider the following Java code, from Apache Commons:
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