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Why I like Clojure as a solo developer | Biff

Why I like Clojure as a solo developer | Biff.
Most of the reasons fall into a few categories: data orientation, the JVM, and the REPL.

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I am thinking of learning Clojure and web development on Clojure for side projects. Data-Oriented programming looks interesting.

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Thank you. Very interesting!

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