> I think Clojure is uniquely positioned here in its ability to fuse these JS<->JVM technologies using a single language
Why? Aren't there a lot of other languages that do the same? What is different about Clojure? Genuinely interested!
Why? Aren't there a lot of other languages that do the same? What is different about Clojure? Genuinely interested!
There was briefly (now deleted) a response to fulafel's comment which essentially pointed out how JavaScript itself should be considered a production-quality language that is up to the task. After all, JavaScript can also now be used to build JVM applications thanks to GraalJS ...except I wouldn't bet on that technology direction gaining much traction at this point in time (unless maybe Oracle has a trick up its sleeve).
It's super helpful for shared libraries. A lot of our code can be shared between JVM servers, JS lambdas, or JS frontend code without much development effort. It's mostly just a matter of naming a file .cljc and you're off to the races.