I quit my job to work on my programming language

I wish you good luck. Except for perhaps 2 1/2 years as a paid Clojure developer over the last 20 years, I don’t much use Clojure for the important stuff: my side projects.

I have been following your project for a while but haven’t tried getting it installed on macOS yet. Clojure is a cool language and having a native code option is a nice contribution.

I also like the “Clojure like” language Hy, or hylang.

I find it more aesthetically pleasing when it's lowercase.

> I get DMs, emails, etc regularly with people asking if jank is ready for them to use. I've spoken with founders and tech leads of dozens of companies, at various Clojure conferences and meet ups, who are interested in using jank to solve performance, efficiency, usability, or interop problems with Clojure.

I’d be very curious how much interest is people looking to move to a Clojure from non Clojure code, and in those cases what domain they are working in (games?). And also how much is people in jvm Clojure looking / hoping for better performance from a c++ Clojure and in that case also curious what domains they are in (I’d naively expect jvm is better for Clojure webdev performance given jvm is historically optimized for webdev).

There is a big difference between "full immersion" and "sort of full focus", even if the amount of hours difference isn't huge. Edit: Although the post mentions a difference of 3 days, that's not a small difference either.