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Design

Concurrency Loose coupling Polymorphism Protocols and type classes Inheritance

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Impact

James Gosling Paul Graham Robert C. Martin ThoughtWorks Apple

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Tools

IDEs Text editors Emacs IntelliJ IDEA Non-commercial

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History

.NET Java Common Lisp Word play Closure

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Designed by: Rich Hickey
Family: JVM-hosted; Lisp
Filename extensions: .clj · .cljs · .cljr · .cljc · .cljd
First appeared: 2007; 19 years ago (2007)
License: Eclipse Public
Memory management: Garbage collection via a host (JVM, CLR, a JavaScript runtime such as V8 in case of ClojureScript or BEAM (see below)

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Overview

Dynamic Dynamic programming language
Functional Functional programming
Dialect Dialect (computing)
Programming language
Lisp Lisp (programming language)
Java platform Java (software platform)
Syntax Syntax (programming languages)
S-expressions S-expression
Parsed Parsing
Data structures Data structure
Lisp reader
Compiled Compiler
Maps Hash table
Vectors Array (data structure)
Code as data Homoiconicity
Lisp macro
Lisp-1
Immutability Immutable object
Immutable data structures Persistent data structure
Concurrent Concurrent programming
Dynamic Type system
Dependent type system Dependent type
Rich Hickey
Common Language Runtime
Benevolent dictator for life

History

.NET
Java Java (programming language)
Common Lisp
Word play
Closure Closure (computer programming)
C# C Sharp (programming language)

Design

Concurrency Concurrency (computer science)
Loose coupling
Polymorphism Polymorphism (computer science)
Protocols and type classes Type class
Inheritance Inheritance (object-oriented programming)
Stateless functions Pure function
Namespace
Methods Method (computer programming)
Replacing syntax with data Data-driven programming
State State (computer science)
Reference types Reference type
Command-line interface
Leiningen Leiningen (software)
Maven Apache Maven
Functions Function (programming)
First-class objects First-class function
Read–eval–print loop
Backquote Backtick
Multimethods Multiple dispatch
Interface Software Interface
Protocol Protocol (object-oriented programming)
Records Record (computer science)
Expression problem
Lazy sequences Lazy evaluation
Recursion
Higher-order functions Higher-order function
Tail call
Parallel Parallel computing
Concurrent Concurrent computing
Software transactional memory

Extensible Data Notation

JSON
XML
Null-like Nullable type

Alternative platforms

ECMAScript
GraalVM
BEAM BEAM (Erlang virtual machine)
Erlang Erlang (programming language)
Virtual machine
Rust Rust (programming language)
Linter Lint (software)
Go Go (programming language)

Tools

IDEs Integrated development environment
Text editors Text editor
Emacs
IntelliJ IDEA
Non-commercial
Sublime Text
Vim Vim (text editor)
Visual Studio Code
Language Server Language Server Protocol
Linux
MacOS
Windows

Development

JIRA Jira (software)

Impact

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Nodes113

Edges112

Triples125

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.017699

Components1

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Clojure

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has impact · 28

Clojure → ADOPT, Apple, Atlassian, Brian Goetz, Clojure's, Eric Evans, Funding Circle, In, It, James Gosling, Java, Java Magazine, JVM, JVM Ecosystem Report, Lisp, Martin, NASA, Netflix, Nubank, Paul Graham

related to history · 15

Clojure → At, Before Clojure, Common Lisp, FOIL, Foreign Object Interface, Hickey, Java, Java Servlets, Lisp, Lisp-friendly, Lisplets, NET, October, Rich Hickey, Stephanie Hickey

related to Tools · 15

Clojure → CalvaIDE-agnostic, CIDERIntelliJ IDEA, Clojure Sublimed, Conjure, Cursive, Emacs, IDEs, Language Server, Neovim, Sublime Text, The, Tooling, Tutkain, Vim, Visual Studio Code

related to Alternative platforms · 11

Clojure → ClojureCLR, ClojureScript, ECMAScript, ES-2021, ES-next, ES5, ES5-strict, Java, NET, Other, The

related to Design · 7

Clojure → Clojure's, For, He, Java, Lisp, Rich Hickey, Since

Filename extensions · 6

Clojure → .clj, .cljc, .cljd, .cljr, .cljs, .edn

Paradigm · 6

Clojure → agent-oriented, concurrent, functional, logic, macro, pipeline

related to Development · 6

Clojure → Anyone, Clojure JIRA, If, JIRA, Rich Hickey, The

related to Extensible Data Notation · 4

Clojure → Extensible Data Notation, It, JSON, XML

Platform · 3

Clojure → .NET, Java, JavaScript

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Important terminology

lisp language data programming java hickey platform structures clojure's functional reader system also syntax dynamic supports macro rich common functions

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Clojure	Designed by	Rich Hickey	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Family	JVM-hosted; Lisp	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Filename extensions	.clj	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Filename extensions	.cljs	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Filename extensions	.cljr	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Filename extensions	.cljc	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Filename extensions	.cljd	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Filename extensions	.edn	1.00	infobox
Clojure	First appeared	2007; 19 years ago (2007)	1.00	infobox
Clojure	License	Eclipse Public	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Memory management	Garbage collection via a host (JVM, CLR, a JavaScript runtime such as V8 in case of ClojureScript or BEAM (see below)	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Paradigm	agent-oriented	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Paradigm	concurrent	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Paradigm	functional	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Paradigm	logic	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Paradigm	macro	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Paradigm	pipeline	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Platform	Java	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Platform	JavaScript	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Platform	.NET	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Stable release	1.12.5 / 12 May 2026; 3 months ago (2026-05-12)	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Typing discipline	Dynamic, strong	1.00	infobox
Clojure	Website	clojure.org	1.00	infobox
Clojure	is a	Lisp-1 and is not intended to be code-compatible with other dialects of Lisp	0.90	text

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