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

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Post by marcingas »

j3s wrote: post #28
marcingas wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for feedback. Here's a pre-AI-slopped README https://github.com/nooga/let-go/blob/98c2e2ebf38519bceb4f799... You can also refer to the HN post itself - it says why I think it's cool.

apologies if i was blunt - readme sloppage is a particular annoyance of mine that is quickly becoming common. i'm not against vibecoding, far from it. but a readme is a part of a project that humans immediately touch - seeing it littered with em-dashes signals carelessness. i appreciate you taking my feedback with grace.

No worries at all. I understand your point. I'll look into fixing this!

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

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Post by stingraycharles »

marcingas wrote: post #30
stingraycharles wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did you feel the need to slopify your README? The original version read much, much better. I genuinely don’t understand why people do this.

Good question, perhaps I really was just careless. I'll look into fixing the README.

It’s all good. Your project is awesome (and I say this as someone who has done Clojure fulltime for 5 years and nowadays write mostly Go).

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

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Post by marcingas »

faangguyindia wrote: post #33

I am finding i need "Rails" but i like single binary deployment of Go and fast/low resource usage like Go. Is it possible for now?

I think you could make a framework on top of this. It doesn't yet run unmodified Clojure libs like hiccup but it wouldn't be hard to roll something relatively simple and solid in let-go. IMO

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

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Post by jimbokun »

marcingas wrote: post #27
j3s wrote: post #26

absolutely sick of reading through obviously AI-slopped READMEs. it's your project, take a little pride and tell me why i should like it quickly instead of asking your agent to rattle off a list of features -- it's severely boring & offputting.

Thanks for feedback. Here's a pre-AI-slopped README https://github.com/nooga/let-go/blob/98c2e2ebf38519bceb4f799... You can also refer to the HN post itself - it says why I think it's cool.

This version is infinitely better.

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

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Post by rcarmo »

j3s wrote: post #28
marcingas wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for feedback. Here's a pre-AI-slopped README https://github.com/nooga/let-go/blob/98c2e2ebf38519bceb4f799... You can also refer to the HN post itself - it says why I think it's cool.

apologies if i was blunt - readme sloppage is a particular annoyance of mine that is quickly becoming common. i'm not against vibecoding, far from it. but a readme is a part of a project that humans immediately touch - seeing it littered with em-dashes signals carelessness. i appreciate you taking my feedback with grace.

I would like to point out, again, that em dashes are very much used by humans that run macOS or iOS — like in this case.

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

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Post by rcarmo »

marcingas wrote: post #6
brazukadev wrote: post #4

do you know about Glojure? https://github.com/glojurelang/glojure

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. ;)

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. ;)

I think I've pulled the latest today but will double-check and update them again tomorrow. I'm still puzzled why it doesn't run the tak function. Btw. Have you tried running my benches? I'm very curious about your results!

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

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Post by veqq »

Nice! I recently played around with a Lisp syntax for Go semantics: https://codeberg.org/veqq/Joe

As far as JVM-free Clojure-like, Janet is really nice. I've been using it in production for a while: https://janet-lang.org/ There's also Fennel if you want the Lua vm and libraries.

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

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Post by marcingas »

veqq wrote: post #39

Nice! I recently played around with a Lisp syntax for Go semantics: https://codeberg.org/veqq/Joe As far as JVM-free Clojure-like, Janet is really nice. I've been using it in production for a while: https://janet-lang.org/ There's also Fennel if you want the Lua vm and libraries.

Thanks! Joe looks good! As for Janet - never tried it myself but I always thought it's doing its own thing instead of trying to be Clojure.
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