Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you know about Java to learning Clojure. Clojure is one of the most fascinating ...

When Rich Hickey created Clojure he did so because he wanted a Lisp language that used immutable data structures by default, that was designed with concurrency in mind, and was compatible with an ...

While clojure hosts a well-rounded suite of concurrency abstractions by far surpassing Java in their design and simplicity, there's also a few ways to just get stuff going on a thread. Using threads ...

The JVM doesn't exist on non-daemon threads. Clojure doesn't either, but when using future etc, you often have to call (shutdown-agents) at the end of a script to kill non-daemon threads. clojure -X ...