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May 21, 2019

The Clojure Programming World: Libraries and Other Tools

With the vibrant community, the Clojure language has a good core of libraries, collections, and other ready-to-use tools. According to a 2019 survey, 25% of Clojure users create or maintain open source solutions. Some programmers also check and fix issues (17%), or report on them (15%).

Clojure users — *Closure Users per SurveyMonkey*

Although all these libs aim to simplify Clojure programming tasks, they may confuse a beginner. Sometimes, it’s difficult to understand how to put all of them together and find an optimal solution for a specific task. So, now I want to show you my favorite tools for programming in Clojure. We will talk about:

April 30, 2019

Building a Small Bank With Clojure

Clojure is a passionate language that uses strong mathematical expressions for you to write code. While I am not a language expert, in any language, in fact, I have a general profile. Therefore, I decided to create a small banking application for studying and testing purposes.

Before begin, I have three book recommendations:

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