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> the JVM brings a fantastic ecosystem Unfortunately it's (intentionally) horrible for interfacing with C libraries. > it doesn't offer anything compelling U
by bachmeier 9y ago
> the JVM brings a fantastic ecosystem
Unfortunately it's (intentionally) horrible for interfacing with C libraries.
> it doesn't offer anything compelling
Unless you need to interact with native libraries.
There's currently a lot of excitement about Scala Native and Kotlin Native. Those projects aren't being done just for the heck of it.
- DigitalJack 9y agoA lot of projects are done for the heck of it. Nothing wrong with that. Native libraries is a good reason. Particularly GUI libraries. I imagine Swift would be a decent target for a lisp, for app development. GUI is a major missing area in clojure. There are some good efforts there, Seesaw targeting Swing, and fn-fx targeting JavaFX.