A visual overview of the similarities and differences between ClojureScript and JavaScript

If you ever wondered how different — or similar — ClojureScript and JavaScript are, then this article should help answer this question. And hopefully it’ll surprise you a couple of times.

Code examples are available via GitHub Gist at the bottom of the article.

Basics

Collections

Functions

Flow Control

Truthiness

State

Interop

Here are those code examples:

JavaScript Examples

ClojureScript Examples

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Thanks to Brian Craft and Mike Fikes for catching the `cond` error, which has been corrected.