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Could this be used for Clojure as well?

• gigatexal 6mo ago
  Idk, would be really interesting if it could. I have been wanting to get into Clojure.
• geokon 6mo ago
  it's used extensively Babashka, which is Clojure for scripting, is the Small Clojure Interpreter compiled to a native executable That said, it does limit you a little b/c with Graal native you need to tell the compiler if you will dynamically use a type/class (so it can't be inferred during compilation). The compiler is doing what JS people call "tree shaking" to strip unused code. (dead code elimination in C++ terms) As I understand it you have some annotation file so you don't eliminate too much, similar to using Proguard. So it's mostly plug-n-play but with some caveats
  • SureshG 6mo ago
    New GraalVM project Crema now supports runtime class-loading. Here's a full Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image + Crema: https://github.com/borkdude/cream https://github.com/borkdude/cream
    • geokon 6mo ago
      Oh wow, that's really impressive Though to my mind the correct solution would be to launch a program + VM, then freeze/store the program state. Then you could just memcopy+execve the program and immediately skip all the initialization (after a bit of Googling it seems this isn't a new idea haha, and it's in the JVM roadmap with Project Leyden. Should come out in maybe JDK 27 and make a lot of this stuff obsolete)