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They have a similar taste, one of many examples is both are dynamic typed. There's at least some LISP ancestry for both (more for Clojure obviously).

As for differences I like Clojure because I can compile up an uberjar and hand that uberjar to ops and walk away, so its faster and easier, whole regions of "fun" (In the dwarf fortress sense of "fun") that exist in ruby deployments simply don't exist as a class of problem in clojure deployments.



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