Top 10 Clojure Features That Benefit Your Business

Insights /

March 26, 2024

4 min read

Clojure

Volodymyr Pavliuk

Clojure Team Lead

January 17, 2025

October 29, 2024

Freshcode

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While some businesses have embraced Clojure for their products and enjoyed its benefits, others often seek clarification and additional analysis when choosing from different technologies.

Before deciding to adopt Clojure or any other programming language, we at Freshcode recommend our clients thoroughly consider the pros, cons, specific features and use cases of each one. The goal is to ensure that the choice will be suitable for future development, encompassing scaling, integrations, increased load, and other factors.

In this blog post, I want to share a brief overview of Clojure's key features and the advantages it offers to businesses.

Overview of Clojure's key features

KEY FEATURE

VALUE FOR BUSINESS

Function Programming Approach

Simpler testing process
Higher code quality - more simple and concise code for less human resource to write and maintain
Flexibility and logic customization on-the-fly
Specialization on big data procecessing can volumous computations

Elegance

Code readability boosts onboarding

Dynamically typed

Errors are caught earlier
Code is consise

JVM ecosystem

High quality infrastructure
Fewer bugs
Handy in multithreaded apps development
Less synchronisation issues
Easier caching

Immutability by default

Clear data flow
Fewer bugs
Less time needed to write and test
Handy in multithreaded apps development
Less synchronisation issues

Extencibility

Improved deploy perfomance
Simple test automation and delivery to customers
Smooth experience even with frequent deploys

Portability

Saving costs on moving new software versions across environments
Ported implementation are easy to support
Increased product lifetime

Rich set of data structures

Convenient data manipulations

Homoiconicity

Language extencibility
Convenient data manipulations
Precise implementation of the specific business logic

A powerful interactive development environment

Easier debugging
Productive development workflow
Easier development of flexible and extencible systems

Сlojure is the right choice for a different specific business needs depends on various factors. Since 2013, from its release to today, it has proved its benefits both programmers and businesses across different countries and industries.

Future achievements of this language are bright and promising — in Clojure we trust! 🙂

If you want to discuss any details regarding Clojure development services at Freshcode, please contact us to schedule a free consultation with our specialists.

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