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ts-native
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Embeddable script compiler for video games
I have gone through 3 iterations and the third was faster than Lua and came close (enough for me) to native C performance with the benchmarks I tried. I'm now on the fourth and hopefully last iteration of this masochistic quest and I'm tired. I want to do this right. I've even made it through much of the dragon book. Apart from the naive solutions I end up wanting to replace in each previous iteration, the problem I keep coming up against is that I can't find many resources that describe interfaces between the host (C++) and the compiled code. I come up with my own ideas for how things should work and look, and then once I finish I can't shake the feeling that there's a better/cleaner/faster way. I start over and come up with better solutions only to feel the same eventually. I want to write solid code that I can feel confident about so I can put this all behind me.
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[C++] My third attempt at a scripting engine
Here's an example: test.gjs
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?
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.
wyvern - Automatic conversion of call by value into call by need in the LLVM IR.
schema-inference - Schema Inference of Malli Schemas
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.
clasp - clasp Common Lisp environment
onejit - [ALPHA] Go just-in-time compiler
bf_jit - Over-engineered JIT compiler for bf
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
sci - Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs
Carp - A statically typed lisp, without a GC, for real-time applications.
immer - Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ — value semantics at scale
DOOM-3 - Doom 3 GPL source release