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What's the TLDR of this? Is it scheme that transpiles to LLVM? If you want to code in lisp, why use this over clojure(script)?
by nyc_cyn 11y ago
What's the TLDR of this? Is it scheme that transpiles to LLVM? If you want to code in lisp, why use this over clojure(script)?
- mikelevins 11y agoIt's a set of tools and frameworks that make it convenient to use the Gambit Scheme compiler to develop apps for several platforms. There are a variety of reasons that someone might choose it over Clojure or ClojureScript: - they like Scheme better than Clojure - they like the frameworks in LambdaNative better than the libraries available for Clojure - they like the toolchain used with LambdaNative better than the toolchain around Clojure (both toolchains are kind of baroque compared to, say, Lispworks or ClozureCL) - they want to build for a platform (such as iOS) where Gambit provides a convenient solution and Clojure doesn't - they want to deliver apps to more platforms than Clojure currently supports - they want to deliver compiled binaries that don't need a JVM or javascript VM to run