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		sherkund on Sept 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter's Storm (complex event processing system) ... Just out of curiosity, to what degree was Clojure chosen because of the ability to use Java libraries vs the language design + community?

nathanmarz on Sept 19, 2011 [–]

Clojure is an amazing language, and part of that is the access to a huge breadth of Java libraries. Storm makes use of Java libraries/projects like JZMQ, Zookeeper, and Thrift.

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