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The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure

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Re: The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure

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Exciting idea, I love Clojure, but every time I tried Clojure, I found myself butting heads with the Java ecosystem, and I always wished it had its own ecosystem and interpreter/compiler. I will caveat that that's just because I've never spent long in the Java ecosystem, so it's not a criticism of the current Clojure + Java ecosystem, more my own lack of experience.

Babashka is good if you are looking for lightweight scripting.

Re: The Jank Language: LLVM Hosted Clojure

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It's extremely interesting, but it has a to be noted that, even though the main page claims 100% compatibility with Clojure, the status page lowers the claim down to 42%, while the GitHub page states you can't even build it.

Everything on the landing page talks about jank's goals and aspirations. 100% Clojure compatibility is a big one. The progress page starts with this disclaimer: > jank is under heavy development. It's safest to assume that any feature advertised is partially developed or in the planning stages. There is no sales pitch here; just a lot of work and some big plans. All development happens on Github, so watch the repo th…

You could probably make everyone happy just by copying that text to the top of the landing page, as an additional paragraph just above where the "Current progress" button is, right after "..ensure clean and correct multi-threaded designs."
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