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Which Lisp flavour do you use Mark? I worked in Java for 15 years before moving to Clojure a decade ago. I find it superbly powerful to be able to leverage the
by d_t_w 7y ago
Which Lisp flavour do you use Mark? I worked in Java for 15 years before moving to Clojure a decade ago.
I find it superbly powerful to be able to leverage the JVM and the Browser with the same language.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoI mostly use Common Lisp, Racket, and periodically like to try the latest versions of Gambit, Chez, and Guile. I used to have two customers who paid me to use Clojure on their projects, I liked Clojure (donated in the early days) but fast natively compiled tools like SBCL, etc. feel better to me. You have found a good home: Clojure and the JVM ecosystem is good for a wide range of uses.
- thu2111 7y agoHave you tried Clojure with the GraalVM native-image? I am curious to what extent native-image can delete the overhead of Clojure and make fast natively compiled binaries.
- mark_l_watson 7y agoNo, I haven’t tried it. I retired last year and the limited time I spend on tech is now persuing personal research on hybrid symbolic and deep learning systems; I use the Hy language ( hylang) for this because it wraps Python (for deep learning) in a reasonable Lisp language with a Clojure-like syntax. I am also writing a book on Hy. Otherwise Common Lisp and Racket(and a little Haskell) suit my hacking needs.