Clojure 101

Episode 1

Intro & Requirements

@lxsameer

Clojure 101

Episode 2

REPL & Basic Concepts

@lxsameer

Heads up

• I'm not going to teach you programming
• I'm not trying to sell clojure to you

What is Clojure?

Clojure ...

• is a functional programming language
• runs on JVM
• is a dialect of Lisp
• is dynamically typed with optional type hints
• is a compiled language

Why Clojure ?

• It's functional
• Runs on JVM, CLR, Javascript, Beam
• Awesome concurrency & parallelism
• Simple and fast
• Fantastic development process
• and ....

Requirements

• A Unix like OS (preferably GNU/Linux)
• JDK >= 1.8
• Leiningen
• Your favorite editor (and parinfer)

JDK

• OpenJDK
• GraalVM
• Jenv

Editors

• Emacs/Cider (FG42)
• Vim
• Cursive
• Atom
• VS Code
• ...