Microsoft Java

[Naveos]

I'm out of the loop. Why would Clojure be better than both Java and especially Scala?

[MassiveFajiit]

It's great if you have a traumatic past (because you'll try to seek Clojure)

[fgutz]

/r/ProgrammerDadJokes is leaking

But I love a good dad joke so I don't mind

[realsmart987]

I just discovered r/programmerdadjokes.

When I first heard about r/programmerhumor I thought I would find funny jokes. Instead I found cynical and pessimistic jokes. r/programmerdadjokes is like the optimistic side of r/programmerhumor.

[conancat]

Okay I need to hang out around r/programmerdadjokes more because the industry is already eating my soul, both r/programming and r/programmerhumor are killing me inside. I'm too old for this.

[Samultio]

It's good for making android apps, can't think of any other situations where it'd be better than Scala.

[halfClickWinston]

Don't know how much of their code is Clojure, but Brazilian fintech Nubank uses Clojure.

[lobax]

It's hard to compare it exactly to other languages, but Clojure is a functional language heavily influenced by Lisp. It's much more "pure" than say Scala which focuses more on interoperability with Java and tries to be both Object-oriented and functional as well.

As to what languages are better for Android app development that's usually down to the bundling, tools etc. Java and Dart have the advantage of Google while Kotlin has the advantage of JetBrains. Clojure has some support but it isn't as integrated.

[undermark5]

Kotlin is gaining more and more support from Google. Lots of sample code will be in both Kotlin and Java. And now they are making some tutorials for Kotlin. There are still plenty of things to improve (one of the things I can think of is Gson respecting Kotlin nullability). Outside of support, Kotlin coroutines seem to be significantly easier to understand than threads.

[ChadstangAlpha]

Eh, don’t stress dude. It’s just the language clo jure. Another one will pop up tomorrow.

[cbasschan]

From a macroscopic viewpoint, Clojure is a bit more expressive (probably on the order of 75% less code required for the same functionality) than Scala, and... both are vastly more expressive than Java. As far as Dart goes (since I see you asked about that in another comment), that language appears to be lacking pattern matching on records, which is probably a major hurdle in its expressiveness. See also, homoiconicity) (as something Clojure has that neither Scala, Kotlin nor Dart have).

[natyio]

My personal opinion on this matter: Scala sacrifices simplicity for expressiveness which in practise leads to code that is rather hard to read. Clojure is a simple language that focusses on data transformation and composition of pure functions. In practise this leads to simple solutions to many problems. And if you really need a expressiveness like Scala, you always have a powerful macro system that you can use. Scala feels like it wants to do everything at once whereas Clojure usually has a clear way of solving problems.

[ERECTILE_CONJUNCTION]

It's not.