On Performance and Java Interoperability: Clojure vs. Scala

Question

I have already read various accounts of Clojure vs. Scala and while I realize that both have their place. There are a few considerations that I haven\'t acquired a complete exp

Answer 1

Note that Clojure and Scala are two totally different types of programming languages - Clojure is a functional Lisp-like language, it is not object oriented. Scala is an object oriented language which has functional programming features.

In my opinion, the features and concepts of a language (functional, OO, ...) are much more important criteria for choosing a language than the performance (of a particular implementation of that language) - altough I understand that you don't want to get trapped into a language for which there is no well-performing implementation available.

I'd go for Scala, because it is object oriented but also allows you to learn functional programming (if you're interested in that). On the other hand, if you don't care about OO and you want to learn "pure" functional programming, try Clojure.