<story><title>Another year of Clojure</title><url>http://spootnik.org/entries/2012/07/04_another-year-of-clojure.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chetan51</author><text>If you were trying to build the world&apos;s next major operating system, would you go with Clojure as one of the core languages, specifically the one that developer-created apps are written in? And could Clojure be fast enough to power the actual OS itself too?&lt;p&gt;With all the new excitement around Clojure, I&apos;m just trying to understand the theoretical and practical limits of the language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmpk2k</author><text>Clojure&apos;s memory consumption is extreme, which excludes it from many realms of software development.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s primarily useful for sovereign applications (e.g. precludes utilities) which do not require high memory density (e.g. precludes databases).&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m quite fond of Clojure&apos;s model, but some tradeoffs had to be made.</text></comment>
<story><title>Another year of Clojure</title><url>http://spootnik.org/entries/2012/07/04_another-year-of-clojure.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chetan51</author><text>If you were trying to build the world&apos;s next major operating system, would you go with Clojure as one of the core languages, specifically the one that developer-created apps are written in? And could Clojure be fast enough to power the actual OS itself too?&lt;p&gt;With all the new excitement around Clojure, I&apos;m just trying to understand the theoretical and practical limits of the language.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>monkeyfacebag</author><text>Well, it&apos;s hosted on the JVM, so, no, it probably would not be a good language to write an operating system in.&lt;p&gt;That said, Clojure is quite fast compared to Python, Ruby et al, but this is primarily a side effect of running on the JVM. FWIW, Java is even faster.</text></comment>