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   by eobrain 12y ago

   Update: The new 0.4.0 release of Funcgo supports limited operator overloading: https://github.com/eobrain/funcgo/blob/master/doc/reference....
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   Thanks all. I created a new FAQ page for Funcgo, seeded with the questions and answers from this forum. https://github.com/eobrain/funcgo/blob/master/doc/FAQ.md
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   I like Glojure. I am not sure if it is worth the hassle of changing the name, but I registered glojure.org just in case I decide to do so.
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   Glad to hear someone else has been thinking about this. Interesting idea to use macros to implement the mapping from the Go syntax tree. Presumably, these macros would implement the same kind of logic that my codegen module implements (map
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   I have plans to implement source maps https://github.com/eobrain/funcgo/issues/19 when targeting JavaScript I have not yet figured out the best way to do something equivalent when targeting the JVM. This is o
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   "Jo" seems it is hard to search for. "Gojure" is already taken by another Github project. I also considered "Clogure", but someone already had that too. Keep the suggestions coming!
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   I cannot say enough good things about Instaparse, which is a flex/bison/jison for Clojure. It's amazingly feature-full and very fast. I could not have built Funcgo without it. Big kudos to Mark Engelberg.
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   I do not plan to add to Funcgo the ability to easily create macros. Inspired by Go's philosophy, I want to limit the scope of the language to keep it somewhat simple. Funcgo however can use macros, so a sufficiently motivated progra
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   by eobrain 12y ago

   Funcgo can readily call Java code, so it supports numerical programming or linking in C++ code to the same extent that Java does.
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    by eobrain 12y ago

    I've no immediate plans for another target for now – there is a lot of work still to do just targeting Clojure and making sure the toolchain is easy for programmers, both server-side and client side. As regards typing, Funcgo has type
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    by eobrain 12y ago

    Yep, fundamentally Funcgo is just Lisp without parentheses. Or put it another way, it is Lisp with more syntax. The fact that Lisp has so little syntax is beautifully elegant from a mathematical point of view, but that is I believe at the
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    by eobrain 12y ago

    Funcgo author here. Thanks for all the interest and comments. I'll respond individually to the comments.