Setting up Clojure on Mac and further learning resources
Knowing both procedural and static languages I figured why bother learning another similar one when I can do something completely different so I decided on Clojure, a functional programming language. Something I knew nothing about.
I was very impressed with how easy it was to start as anything with a lot of setup through command line is usually very error prone in my experience and ends up in failure.
Since these are Mac setup instructions I know you’ll have Java already installed so with that we just need to install the standard build tool for Clojure called Leiningen. This is the easiest way to get started, trust me! It’ll take care of everything we need thanks to a self install option. To start off:
- Download the shell script and save as “lein.sh”
- Open Finder and enter CMD + SHIFT + G for the “Go to Folder” prompt
- Enter: /usr/local/bin/ (or any other bin directory in your PATH)
- Copy the shell script to that folder
- Running the following commands to make the script executable and then install:
- For that I suggest following these in depth blog posts to get started:
With the setup complete we can now create some projects and run some code. To get started I suggest following these in depth blog posts.
- Sean Corfield on Getting Started With Clojure
- Zef Hemel on Building Clojure Projects With Leiningen
For resources into learning more about Clojure here are a few I’ve collected:
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