Clojure vs. Java vs. MacHTTP-js vs. OCaml 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.

MacHTTP-js is currently available for preview on macOS now. As a brand new application, MacHTTP-js includes features never envisioned in the original when it was first released in 1992. MacHTTP-js is written from the ground up using the node.js platform, which means it is a cross-platform application that can run on macOS, Windows, and Linux operating systems. MacHTTP-js is a full-featured Web server for 21st century desktops and servers. A "preview" release is available now for Mac users, followed by a general release for Windows 10 and Linux computers, including support for Docker. This is a full-featured release for macOS and other O/S versions will follow shortly.