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As someone who loves both PyPy and Clojure, I wish Pixie was right up my alley. But I don't understand why the choice was made to be ... sort-of like Clojure, b
by lvh 10y ago
As someone who loves both PyPy and Clojure, I wish Pixie was right up my alley. But I don't understand why the choice was made to be ... sort-of like Clojure, but not all the way, as opposed to just-another-Clojure-implementation. Why can't I have a .cljc file that runs on Pixie?
(Not voluntelling halgari to do things! I would just like tn understand.)
- mschaef 10y ago> sort-of like Clojure, but not all the way, I tend to agree... but doesn't 'all the way Clojure' imply at least some exposure of an underlying runtime, be it either Java (Clojure) or JavaScript (ClojureScript)? I'm admittedly a bit behind the curve wrt the latest developments in the Clojure along these lines.
- lvh 10y agoYes! Being able to call PyPy things natively would be a godsend; PyPy is a great runtime and already has a good Python implementation. It has significantly fewer compatibility issues than, say, Jython.
- omginternets 10y agoI'm taking a shot in the dark, but have you looked at the Hy language? I imagine it must be relatively straightforward to port this over to RPython.
- lvh 10y agoHy is also great, but it is even further away from Clojure than Pixie is.
- emidln 10y agoThere was a tech demo for a talk where Tim Baldridge linked Python via the ffi and then was importing random things.