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4.5 | 9.3 | |
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cloture
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Trouble defining a Lisp-1 DSL in Common Lisp
For reference, and to show that it's possible, you might be interested in how I did this for Cloture (Clojure in CL): https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture/blob/master/clojure/core.lisp
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The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure
Why not use something like https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture (a Clojure "adapter" that runs on Common Lisp) if you want that?
- Cloture – Implementation of Clojure in Common Lisp
- ClojureRS – Clojure interpreter implemented in Rust
- Clojure – Differences with Other Lisps
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Clojure, but without the JVM?
Clojure on Common Lisp: https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture
- Seeking clojure-styled concurrency operators for common lisp
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On Repl-Driven Programming
It does not offer the full experience. It has no breakloop and no ability to browse and edit the live running environment. It has no ability to rummage around inside the dynamic environment of a suspended function call, much less to redefine the suspended function or the types of its parameters, nor to restart the suspended call. Indeed, the JVM makes some of that stuff really inconvenient to do.
You cannot do everything from the Clojure repl in the way you can from a Common Lisp repl or from a Smalltalk worksheet.
I don't know that the Clojure language design forbids it; you might, for example, implement Clojure on top of a Lisp or Smalltalk environment and hook up their tools to Clojure through its interop. That might work, and ruricolist has been working on such an implementation called Cloture:
https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture
But existing Clojure implementations don't have the full set of tools.
jank
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Compiling a Lisp
There's an effort afoot to bring this to the Clojure world, with the lovely name jank: https://jank-lang.org
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A Tour of Lisps
I also liked that reference since I had not heard of Jank before. It is a work in progress so I just added a calendar entry for 9 months from now to check it out. https://jank-lang.org/
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Boehm Garbage Collector
There will be a lot of room for this, once I build out more of the features. In particular, there will be a lot of Clojure libraries which need to gain jank support. Clojure doesn't require "porting", so to speak, since it has a special .cljc file which can use reader conditionals to check the host that it's in (clj, cljs, cljr, jank, etc). So anywhere those libs are using Java interop, we'd need to wrap it to use native interop instead.
On the compiler and tooling itself, I have some open issues here: https://github.com/jank-lang/jank/issues
The vast majority of it is heavy C++ work, though. Outside of that, the biggest gains will come from time spent on packaging, distribution, and testing on various platforms.
And if none of that sounds interesting or applicable, don't worry. Just be sure to join the Slack channel and hang out with us. :)
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Using C++ as a scripting language, part 8
On the top of using C++ for scripting, and related to the discussion of CERN's ROOT/Cling, I am developing a Clojure dialect on C++/LLVM called jank: https://jank-lang.org/
jank is a true Clojure, meaning you get interactive, REPL-based development and a whole stdlib of persistent, immutable data structures and functions to transform them. But it's also C++, so you can write inline C++ within your jank source, and interpolate jank values within that. You can link with existing native code using LLVM and you can embed jank into your existing native projects to use for scripting.
jank is pre-alpha, right now, and I've only been showing it to Clojure devs so far, but there's a huge audience of C++ devs which may be interested in introducing Clojure to their native code.
- Leaving Clojure - Feedback for those that care
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[ANN] London Clojurians Talk: The jank programming language (by Jeaye Wilkerson)
jank (https://jank-lang.org/) is a Clojure dialect on LLVM with C++ interop. In this talk, Jeaye will cover jank's use cases, some challenges around building a native Clojure dialect, and some insights about Clojure itself found only by spelunking deep into the Clojure compiler.
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Janet for Mortals
I wonder if Jank [1] could be such a Lisp? I haven't played around with it, but I really like the idea and would love to see it get more traction.
[1]: https://jank-lang.org/
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Loopr: A Loop/Reduction Macro for Clojure
This isn't usable yet, but in active development by the author, and looks promising: https://jank-lang.org/
- Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure
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What is most in need in Clojure open-source ecosystem?
Jank looks pretty legit: https://jank-lang.org/
What are some alternatives?
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
graalvm-clojure - This project contains a set of "hello world" projects to verify which Clojure libraries do actually compile and produce native images under GraalVM.
clojerl - Clojure for the Erlang VM (unofficial)
wyvern - Automatic conversion of call by value into call by need in the LLVM IR.
clj-chrome-devtools - Clojure API for controlling a Chrome DevTools remote
schema-inference - Schema Inference of Malli Schemas
etaoin - Pure Clojure Webdriver protocol implementation
pil21 - PicoLisp is an open source Lisp dialect. It is based on LLVM and compiles and runs on any 64-bit POSIX system. Its most prominent features are simplicity and minimalism.
planck - Stand-alone ClojureScript REPL
clasp - clasp Common Lisp environment
ClojureRS - Clojure, implemented atop Rust (unofficial)
onejit - [ALPHA] Go just-in-time compiler