Clojure
Provider 
Founded 2013
Sells To Consumers and Businesses
Pricing Model Interest Income
Ownership Public

Clojure is a dynamic, functional dialect of Lisp hosted on the Java Virtual Machine.
Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language designed as a hosted language on the JVM, compiling all functions to JVM bytecode while remaining completely dynamic at runtime. It is a dialect of Lisp that shares the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system, and it is predominantly functional, built around a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures.
When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and a reactive Agent system to support clean, correct multithreaded designs. Clojure was created by Rich Hickey; the consultancy Cognitect, which developed and supported the language, was acquired by Nubank in 2020, and Nu now serves as a key corporate sponsor of Clojure and ClojureScript.
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Apache Groovy
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F#
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Oracle

Java
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JetBrains

Kotlin
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Scala
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| Attribute | Clojure | Apache Groovy | F# | Java | Kotlin | Scala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provider | |||||||
| Founded | 2013 | 1999 | 1975 | 1977 | 2000 | 2016 | |
| Sells To | Consumers and Businesses | — | Enterprises, Small Business | Enterprise, Small Business | Developers | — | |
| Pricing Model | Interest Income | — | SaaS, Transactional | Recurring, Software, Transactional | Subscription | — | |
| Ownership | Public | Nonprofit | Public | Public | Private | — |
Provider 
Founded 2013
Sells To Consumers and Businesses
Pricing Model Interest Income
Ownership Public
Provider 
Founded 1999
Sells To —
Pricing Model —
Ownership Nonprofit
Provider 
Founded 1975
Sells To Enterprises, Small Business
Pricing Model SaaS, Transactional
Ownership Public
Provider 
Founded 1977
Sells To Enterprise, Small Business
Pricing Model Recurring, Software, Transactional
Ownership Public
Provider 
Founded 2000
Sells To Developers
Pricing Model Subscription
Ownership Private


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