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Re: Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

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Post by christophilus »

phplovesong wrote: post #49

There seems to be a surge in compile to Go projects recently. To me this signals that the runtime / stdlib of Go is one of the best out there (when going the GD'd route), but the surface level (syntax) is too simple/verbose and lacks the expressiveness developers want. So far Lisette ( http://lisette.run ) seems to be the best/most active version of a compile to Go language out there.

That does look pretty good. I don’t love the mixing of PascalCase / camelCase and snake_case, though.

Re: Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

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Post by marcingas »

rcarmo wrote: post #37
marcingas wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I know about this one. I'm even comparing against it in my benchmarks :)

You need to update the go-joker numbers, I removed the GIL yesterday or so and did some changes to the IR. ;)

Updated. Looks like my VM gets a beating from wazero but that's kind of expected :D

Re: Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms

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Post by marcingas »

edem wrote: post #65

The JVM can boot up in microseconds you just have to tune it a bit.

The JVM itself - yes, but then you need to wait for Clojure itself. Clojure is famously slow because it interns a bunch of stuff and computes var references every time it boots. I never intended for let-go to be a race car but small distro, low memory usage and snappy start are its priorities at the moment.
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