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Software Engineering Daily · Aug 4, 2016 · 59 min

Clojure with Alex Miller

Clojure is a dynamically typed functional language that runs on the JVM. Today’s guest Alex Miller gives us an overview of Clojure’s core functionality. Alex is a developer of Cognitect, and a founder of the the Strange Loop conference. We discuss the data structures, garbage collection, and concurrency support. How does Clojure compare to other JVM languages like Scala and Groovy? How does Clojure copy immutable data structures without copying all of the data? How does a Clojure program get evaluated and converted to Java bytecode? These questions, and many others are discussed in this episode.

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Clojure is a dynamically typed functional language that runs on the JVM. Today’s guest Alex Miller gives us an overview of Clojure’s core functionality. Alex is a developer of Cognitect, and a founder of the the Strange Loop conference.

We discuss the data structures, garbage collection, and concurrency support. How does Clojure compare to other JVM languages like Scala and Groovy? How does Clojure copy immutable data structures without copying all of the data? How does a Clojure program get evaluated and converted to Java bytecode? These questions, and many others are discussed in this episode.

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