compiled-language – Tarik Billa

Is Ruby a scripting language or an interpreted language?

December 23, 2023 by Tarik

Things aren’t just black and white. At the very least, they’re also big and small, loud and quiet, blue and orange, grey and gray, long and short, right and wrong, etc. Interpreted/compiled is just one way to categorize languages, and it’s completely independent from (among countless other things) whether you call the same language a … Read more

Is Clojure compiled or interpreted?

July 24, 2023 by Tarik

Clojure is always compiled. The Clojure compiler produces Java byte code, which is typically then JIT-compiled to native code by the JVM. The thing that can be confusing is the dynamic and interactive nature of Clojure that means you can invoke the compiler at run-time if you want to. This is all part of the … Read more