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 The web plus mobile apps are the user-interface of today'​s stack. ​ Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are becoming important quickly as a platform in their own right. ​ Javascript has become more important than Java, [[https://​github.com/​eclipsesource/​J2V8|both on the server and inside the browser]]. The web plus mobile apps are the user-interface of today'​s stack. ​ Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality are becoming important quickly as a platform in their own right. ​ Javascript has become more important than Java, [[https://​github.com/​eclipsesource/​J2V8|both on the server and inside the browser]].
  
-[[https://​www.heroku.com|Heroku]],​ [[https://​aws.amazon.com/​|Amazon Web Services]] and similar compute and storage services make it possible for anyone with an idea to write applications that anybody in the world can use, and to take advantage of the data collected by those applications.+[[https://​www.heroku.com|Heroku]],​ [[https://​aws.amazon.com/​|Amazon Web Services]]and similar compute and storage services make it possible for anyone with an idea to write applications that anybody in the world can use, and to take advantage of the data collected by those applications.
  
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 +I believe that Clojure and Clojurescript (Clojure inside the web browser) provide an opportunity to learn to develop web applications unlike anything that has come before. ​ This is because Clojure is a first-class functional programming language, and because that same language works everywhere.
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 +A programmer can learn Javascript and do similar things, but I believe that Clojure and Clojurescript can take a programmer farther than Javascript can.  This is because Clojure is both a first-class functional language and because it is a Lisp, which means that code is data is code is data....
  
 Here is my (current) favorite stack for building and deploying data-first applications. ​ To those who have asked me to share a "way in" to modern software development,​ this is my list of topics to search on Google. Here is my (current) favorite stack for building and deploying data-first applications. ​ To those who have asked me to share a "way in" to modern software development,​ this is my list of topics to search on Google.
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