Learning ClojureScript

Foreword

JavaScript is everywhere. The language was originally designed to permit non-programmers to add dynamic flairs to a new-fangled thing called a webpage. Two decades after its introduction, JavaScript has grown into a versatile, expressive, and complicated language—the most recent ECMAScript standard rivals the Java 1.8 language specification in terms of page count!

Yet in many ways, JavaScript still represents an older way of doing things. Nowadays, many industrial programmers are finding their way to functional programming. While JavaScript has some nice functional features, it lags far behind even the most recent decade of functional programming best practices.

Enter ClojureScript!

First released in 2011, ClojureScript has grown into an ...