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If only Clojure wasn't tied to the fucking JVM
by BaculumMeumEst 2y ago
If only Clojure wasn't tied to the fucking JVM
- askonomm 2y agoDoesn't have to be: see https://jank-lang.org/ https://jank-lang.org/, https://babashka.org/ https://babashka.org/
- Dansvidania 2y agomay I ask what this sentiment comes from? I sincerely want to know what I am missing, because the fact that Clojure is hosted on the JVM (mainly) seems like a plus to me. I don't much like the build tools in the jvm environment such as maven or gradle, and the error messages could be better for sure. Is there more ugliness that I should look into?
- BaculumMeumEst 2y agoWhat you said, plus applications use a ton of RAM and are a pain in the ass to distribute.
- iLemming 2y agoWell, first of all, JVM, even though it still gets a lot of bad rap (mainly due to Java) turns out to be really nice piece of tech, especially if the aim is to scale CPU-intensive tasks. Besides - Clojure is not JVM-only, Clojure is a hosted language, it can work a top of different platforms: JS engine - Clojurescript; Flutter - ClojureDart; Native Code scripting - Babashka; NodeJS - nbb; .Net - Clojure CLR; Fennel even though technically is not a Clojure, is a lovely little language very similar to it and it works on Lua. There's also jank-lang, currently in development that works on top of LLVM. There are a bunch of other Clojure dialects - for Rust, Go, Python, Erlang, etc.