We started by installing the Counterclockwise plugin in Eclipse IDE. While not as feature-rich yet as some other Eclipse plugins covered in this book, it served us quite well. We installed Leiningen, the most popular build tool in use by Clojure developers. As promised in the previous chapter, we also covered how to compile class files with and without using the Leiningen build tool. We even tried Leiningen's uberjar task that conveniently generates a JAR file containing all the dependencies. We created our first project where we explored the monads subject by applying test-driven development using the clojure.test unit testing framework. After this, we created a Luminus micro web framework project, based on a built-in template, that we imported to Eclipse IDE. We added a page that accepts text input and shows the entered text using the function that we created in the monads section.
The next language that we will cover is Kotlin. Kotlin is, like Java, a static, strongly typed programming...