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> But again, Jank is not clojure .. just clojure-like, or so it seem jank is Clojure. If it works on Clojure JVM and it works on ClojureScript, it should gener

by Jeaye 2y ago

> But again, Jank is not clojure .. just clojure-like, or so it seem jank is Clojure. If it works on Clojure JVM and it works on ClojureScript, it should generally work on jank. Clojure doesn't have a language specification, but the community knows what a proper Clojure should feel like. Strong Clojure compatibility means anything outside of interop should just work. Naturally, interop on Clojure is very host-specific; Clojure JVM does one thing, ClojureScript does another, Clojure CLR does a third thing. > That being said, what would be the benefits of a native clojure, you have common-lips and guile if you want native At this point, we'd be discussing the benefits of Clojure over CL and Guile, which ends up being a different discussion. jank is for Clojure devs who want a native host and good native interop. It's also for native devs who want to introduce interactive programming and FP into their systems.

dustingetz 2y ago
can you use jank in .cljc files and portable code regions just work? platform specific interop guarded of course?
- Jeaye 2y ago
  Yes! jank has its own :jank reader conditional which you can use.
Folcon 2y ago
How complete is it? I looked at github and came away with the impression it's very much still a work in progress, but you seem to imply it's closer to being complete? Does nrepl work well? Can I just load a relatively arbitrary cljc file? This discussion made me check it out as I'd like to use it in conjunction with some C++ files/libs, but looking at the project left me really quite unsure as to it's current state.
- Jeaye 2y ago
  jank is still under heavy development. It is not released yet. A lot of features are working, or complete, but the language is at least several months out from being alpha released. The majority of this is captured here: https://jank-lang.org/progress/ https://jank-lang.org/progress/
  - Folcon 2y ago
    Thanks for the clarification, I'm looking forward to it's eventual release! =)

by Jeaye 2y ago

dustingetz 2y ago

can you use jank in .cljc files and portable code regions just work? platform specific interop guarded of course?

Jeaye 2y ago
Yes! jank has its own :jank reader conditional which you can use.

Folcon 2y ago

How complete is it? I looked at github and came away with the impression it's very much still a work in progress, but you seem to imply it's closer to being complete? Does nrepl work well? Can I just load a relatively arbitrary cljc file? This discussion made me check it out as I'd like to use it in conjunction with some C++ files/libs, but looking at the project left me really quite unsure as to it's current state.

Jeaye 2y ago
jank is still under heavy development. It is not released yet. A lot of features are working, or complete, but the language is at least several months out from being alpha released. The majority of this is captured here: https://jank-lang.org/progress/ https://jank-lang.org/progress/
- Folcon 2y ago
  Thanks for the clarification, I'm looking forward to it's eventual release! =)