Kawa 2.0 released

#1

Post by samiryusf » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 11:22 AM UTC

Re: Kawa 2.0 released

#2

Post by th0ma5 » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 6:28 PM UTC

I had a lot of fun with Kawa and the JVM until I discovered Clojure and Leiningen... really Kawa could use a building and dependency infrastructure like Leiningen. Anyway, Kawa is a lot of fun, too.

Re: Kawa 2.0 released

#3

Post by megatroll » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 6:33 PM UTC

This is really interesting. Going to try it out later tonight!

Re: Kawa 2.0 released

#4

Post by samiryusf » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 6:45 PM UTC

As much as I like clojure; The idea of having a pure Scheme and the ability to play with SICP code on JVM is tempting

Re: Kawa 2.0 released

#5

Post by pjmlp » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 6:49 PM UTC

I wonder if it is faster than Clojure on Android.

Does anyone know?

I am still hoping that Clojure 1.7 will finally be fast enough.

Re: Kawa 2.0 released

#6

Post by sciurus » Thu, Dec 04, 2014, 7:39 PM UTC

Here is a link to the LWN article referenced in that post - http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/623349/ba6d590bfc71a537/

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Re: Kawa 2.0 released

#7

Post by sitkack » Fri, Dec 05, 2014, 1:40 AM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #5

I wonder if it is faster than Clojure on Android. Does anyone know? I am still hoping that Clojure 1.7 will finally be fast enough.

This old, but you might be able to rerun it. http://per.bothner.com/blog/2010/Kawa-in-shootout/ Back in 2010 Kawa looks to be beating Clojure pretty handily. Not sure how well Kawa fares under robovm. All worth a weekend hack for those with some time.