The other libraries are clojure libs that implement javascript analogies[1] as clojure macros and functions and generate javascript. ClojureScript is a Clojure

The other libraries are clojure libs that implement javascript analogies[1] as clojure macros and functions and generate javascript. ClojureScript is a Clojure The Language compiler that implements Clojure (its datastructures, standard lib, protocols, deftypes etc etc) and is hosted[2] on javascript rather than the JVM. In ClojureScript you are not writing reskinned javascript, you are writing Clojure. [1] simplified for the argument [2] By outputting javascript