Honestly, Project Panama seems much more promising for interop with the C ABI from the Java platform. This is anecdotal, but a lot of commercial Clojure project

Honestly, Project Panama seems much more promising for interop with the C ABI from the Java platform. This is anecdotal, but a lot of commercial Clojure projects seem to have a small JNI-using library that nobody dares to touch with a 10 ft. pole lest something in it breaks and debugging is tedious, if possible at all. I've been eagerly waiting for the release of Java 21 since it means projects like coffi[1] can be used in a stable release of Java, and the API is honestly much more ergonomic than dealing with SWIG and using JNI directly. [1] https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi https://github.com/IGJoshua/coffi