Difference between clojure and clojurescript?

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Can anyone please list some differences between Clojure and ClojureScript? (Please and thank you) Syntax wise differences?

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They are different languages with a common syntax that are hosted in different environments.

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The full differences between Clojure and ClojureScript are listed in detail here on the ClojureScript website.

According to that page, the primary differences lie in:

  • concurrent programming
  • hosting env (JVM vs a JS VM or Google's Clojure compiler)
  • numbers
  • characters
  • the read, and read-string methods are defined in a different place
  • load, and load-file not yet implemented
  • no eval in ClojureScript
  • a few of the special forms aren't implemented