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Clojure for Java Developers

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Clojure for Java Developers

Overview of this book

We have reached a point where machines are not getting much faster, software projects need to be delivered quickly, and high quality in software is more demanding as ever. We need to explore new ways of writing software that helps achieve those goals. Clojure offers a new possibility of writing high quality, multi-core software faster than ever, without having to leave your current platform. Clojure for Java developers aims at unleashing the true potential of the Clojure language to use it in your projects. The book begins with the installation and setup of the Clojure environment before moving on to explore the language in-depth. Get acquainted with its various features such as functional programming, concurrency, etc. with the help of example projects. Additionally, you will also, learn how the tooling works, and how it interacts with the Java environment. By the end of this book, you will have a firm grip on Clojure and its features, and use them effectively to write more robust programs.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Clojure for Java Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


As you can see, Clojure has a mature development environment that is always evolving. You can set up command-line tools and your IDE in a very similar fashion to the way you will do in a normal Java development.

We also learned a little about Clojure's regular syntax, its data types and how they relate to Java's own data types.

Overall, you should now be comfortable with:

  • Lisp syntax

  • Creating a Leiningen project from scratch

  • Running and packaging your code

  • Importing a Leiningen project into IntelliJ

  • Using the REPL

  • Knowing the relationship between Clojure types and Java types

In the next chapter, we will get an idea of how to organize our code and how that organization takes advantage of Java packages.