Fullstack Clojure for the Age of AI
LLMs have finite context windows.
Clojure is the most expressive language that exists.
Build fullstack web applications with sub-second feedback loops, 90k+ req/s performance, and minimal boilerplate.
Why Rakiba?
REPL-First Development
Sub-second feedback loops. Change a function, evaluate it, see the result. No restart. No rebuild. No waiting.
High Performance
90k+ requests/second benchmarked on real hardware. The JVM's JIT compiler has 25 years of optimization by some of the best engineers on the planet.
LLM-Optimized
Minimal boilerplate, maximum expressiveness. Every line of code carries meaning. Your AI assistant can do more with less context.
Choose Your Stack
Jetty, http-kit, Undertow, or Aleph. All Ring-compatible and swappable via configuration.
Frontend Flexibility
Re-frame for simplicity, UIx for hooks, or Fulcro for full-stack state management. Or go API-only.
One-Command Deploy
Deploy to local sandbox or VPS with a single command. Production-ready from day one.
The Nature of Lisp
All source code is a tree. Compilers parse it into an Abstract Syntax Tree. XML is also a tree. So any code can be written as XML - and XML can be executed as code. Apache Ant proved this: those build files aren't configuration, they're a programming language.
Lisp's parentheses are just a less verbose way to write that same tree. Code is data. Data is code. The distinction was always fake.
This unlocks something no other language has: macros that receive code as data, transform it with the full power of the language, and return new code. Every language keeps rediscovering pieces of this - Java's lambdas, C#'s LINQ, Rust's proc macros. They're all reaching toward what Lisp had in 1958.
Read More;; FUNCTION: receives the value
(defn input [value]
[:input {:value value}])
;; MACRO: receives the SYMBOL - extracts the name!
(defmacro form-field [var]
`[:input {:name ~(name var) :value ~var}])
(def email "user@example.com")
(input email)
;; => [:input {:value "user@example.com"}]
(form-field email)
;; => [:input {:name "email" :value "user@example.com"}]