jank
min-sized-rust
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18 | 101 | |
1,431 | 7,431 | |
1.5% | - | |
9.3 | 6.2 | |
12 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
C++ | Rust | |
Mozilla Public License 2.0 | MIT License |
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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/
min-sized-rust
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The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
This is a good guide on building small Rust binaries: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
This talks about going to extreme lengths on making the smallest Rust binary possible, 400 bytes when it was written, https://darkcoding.net/software/a-very-small-rust-binary-ind...
The thing is, you lose a lot of nice features when you do this, like panic unwinding, debug symbols, stdlib… for kernel and some embedded development it’s definitely important, but for most use cases, does it matter?
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Rust wont save us, but its ideas will
Oh it was 137, haha. I will link you to this older comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29408906
See also https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
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Making Rust binaries smaller by default
Are you sure? If so then this is awesome news, but I'm a bit confused; the commit in that min-sized-rust repo adding `build-std` to the README was merged in August 2021: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust/pull/30
Are you saying that at that point the feature still hadn't "landed in Rust nightly" until recently? If so then what's the difference between a feature just being available in Rust nightly, vs having "landed"?
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Was Rust Worth It?
Rust binaries are by default nowhere close to 500MB. If they are not small enough for you, you can try https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust. By avoiding the formatting machinery and using `panic_immediate_abort` you can get about the size of C binaries.
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Compiling Rust binaries for Windows 98 SE and more: a journey
A useful reference: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
- How to minimize Rust binary size
- Error on flashing embedded code to stm32f103
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Tiny Binaries (2021)
That must be without stripping. Also there are ways to reduce binary size. See e.g. [min-sized-rust](https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust). I've gotten stripped binaries of small cli utils less than 400KiB without doing anything special, less than 150 KiB by customizing profile settings and compressing with upx, and less than 30 KiB by replacing the std with the libc as the link shows. Haven't tried with fltk though...
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Shared libraries
This is not quite what you're asking, but it does also address the underlying concern: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust
What are some alternatives?
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.
smartstring - Compact inlined strings for Rust.
wyvern - Automatic conversion of call by value into call by need in the LLVM IR.
Cargo - The Rust package manager
schema-inference - Schema Inference of Malli Schemas
rustc_codegen_gcc - libgccjit AOT codegen for rustc
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.
c2rust - Migrate C code to Rust
clasp - clasp Common Lisp environment
regex - An implementation of regular expressions for Rust. This implementation uses finite automata and guarantees linear time matching on all inputs.
onejit - [ALPHA] Go just-in-time compiler
embedded-graphics - A no_std graphics library for embedded applications