graalvm-clojure VS lilyvm

Using graalvm when possible. More details (finding out if possible for your project) here: https://github.com/clj-easy/graalvm-clojure/tree/master/

I haven't yet, no, but I've just barely gotten started. There's a repo here that tracks compatibility of several Clojure libraries: https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/graalvm-clojure

Even though there's no batteries-included way to manage Clojure projects, the community has put together a lot of great tools and guides the cover all the bases. The community seems to be converging around the official Clojure CLI and associated tooling as the preferred way to manage Clojure projects. It's extremely well designed, like most things Clojure, but, also like most things Clojure, it's very bare-bones. It's not an all-in-one command-line utility you can use to manage your whole project, like the angular or rails CLIs (which I didn't appreciate nearly enough in my former life 😢). You need to configure the Clojure CLI itself for it to be useful, but luckily that's really straightforward to do. What follows are the steps I did to make a new skeleton command-line app in Clojure. It follows the steps from this great guide, but I included the actual commands here because I use the Clojure CLI (clj) instead of lein to run things.

I've recently started implementing a VM for Scheme [1] and was already envisioning to maybe add Clojure at some point. I'm writing it in plain C, since I don't see much reason to use C++ for the VM itself, and I like the simplicity and transparency of C. Also, I'm hoping to prove security at some point and C may make that easier (support from tooling like proof assistants). I don't think C++ would help enough to avoid security pitfalls by itself, unless one accepts the result to be very slow. But the VM does compile as C++, and complex data structures like HAMT may really better be written in C++, so I don't think I mind that. I think the approach to take for all speed-sensitive objects would be for them to be integrated directly with the GC (allocated from the GC heap, and traced via an object specific method).

Let me know if you'd like to discuss this more.

[1] https://github.com/pflanze/lilyvm