Clojure vs. JavaScript vs. Permify vs. Zig Comparison Chart

Clojure is a robust, practical, and fast programming language with a set of useful features that together form a simple, coherent, and powerful tool. Clojure is a dynamic, general-purpose programming language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language, yet remains completely dynamic, every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When a mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system.

Permify is an authorization service designed to help developers build and manage fine-grained, scalable access control systems within their applications. Inspired by Google's Zanzibar, Permify enables the structuring of authorization models, storage of authorization data in preferred databases, and interaction with its API to handle authorization queries across various applications and services. It supports multiple access control models, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC), allowing for the creation of granular permissions and policies. Permify centralized authorization logic, abstracting it from the codebase to facilitate easier reasoning, testing, and debugging. It offers flexible policy storage options and provides a role manager to handle RBAC role hierarchies. The platform also supports filtered policy management for efficient enforcement in large, multi-tenant environments.