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Yes, that question had a little bit of salt in it as well. The startup times are one of the things, tooling isn't quite there yet (although getting better and b
by codeshaman 11y ago
Yes, that question had a little bit of salt in it as well.
The startup times are one of the things, tooling isn't quite there yet (although getting better and better).
And I have an allergy to the JVM/Java, but am willing to live with it because of the language.
Clojure at C/C++ speed would be a true wonder.
- siscia 11y agoActually clojure is been designed to be hosted, it should not be difficult to build a clojure (dialect) that compile into a system language... Well of course it is difficult in the absolute meaning, but not so difficult... When I was younger I tried to figured out every single interface that clojure use, and there weren't too much... Some figure here[1] It would be a really interesting summer project... [1]: http://siscia.github.io/2013/11/28/visualize-hierarchy-behind-java-class/ http://siscia.github.io/2013/11/28/visualize-hierarchy-behin...
- yogthos 11y agoThere's a LLVM Clojure dialect called Pixie https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie that has extremely fast startup