Clojure vs ES6: What are the differences?
Developers describe Clojure as "A dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine". Clojure is designed to be a general-purpose 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 - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. On the other hand, ES6 is detailed as "The next version of JavaScript". Goals for ECMAScript 2015 include providing better support for large applications, library creation, and for use of ECMAScript as a compilation target for other languages. Some of its major enhancements include modules, class declarations, lexical block scoping, iterators and generators, promises for asynchronous programming, destructuring patterns, and proper tail calls.
Clojure and ES6 belong to "Languages" category of the tech stack.
"It is a lisp" is the top reason why over 96 developers like Clojure, while over 98 developers mention "ES6 code is shorter than traditional JS" as the leading cause for choosing ES6.
Clojure is an open source tool with 7.85K GitHub stars and 1.25K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Clojure's open source repository on GitHub.
Slack, StackShare, and ebay are some of the popular companies that use ES6, whereas Clojure is used by CircleCI, Groupon, and Soundcloud. ES6 has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1461 company stacks & 1725 developers stacks; compared to Clojure, which is listed in 95 company stacks and 80 developer stacks.