Clojure inventor Hickey now aims for Android

Didn't know Clojure 1.4 was going to have reader macros. That's awesome, one of the last features I was really missing from Common Lisp.

Clever attention-grabbing title, based on just 3 or 4 offhand sentences about people optimizing Clojure for Android.

Rich Hickey: "It's like traditional databases in being consistent and transactional, and it's like these new databases in being oriented toward flexibility for the application developer. It's bridging those two worlds."<p>Doesn't the CAP theorem [1] say that consistency, availability and partition tolerance cannot be achieved in a single system? How is Datomic giving us consistency, transactions and scalability? What are they sacrificing? How are they getting the 'best of all worlds'?<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem</a>

This isn't really 'Hickey saying Android is then next target for Clojure and is at the forefront of the 'roadmap' for the language.<p>He's just mentioning the work some people have done in the Clojure community to get Clojure running on Android (with performance/startup issues)