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Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by iagooar »

Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid.

Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?

Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by gandolfinmyhead »

iagooar wrote: post #2

Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid. Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?

Hmm hmm study the internals of Lumo maybe? Here's a question, would you be able to build non-actor based concurrency primitives like async's go blocks on a actor based erlang framework? (sorta shooting the shit here)

Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by shakna »

iagooar wrote: post #2

Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid. Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?

Take a look at LFE [0]

[0] http://lfe.io

Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by berdario »

shakna wrote: post #5
iagooar wrote: post #2

Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid. Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?

Take a look at LFE [0] [0] http://lfe.io

If I remember correctly, LFE is a Lisp2

Joxa (just like Clojure) is a Lisp1, thus maybe more apt http://joxa.org

Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by sz4kerto »

iagooar wrote: post #2

Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid. Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?

One of the main objectives of Clojure was interoperability with Java because of the ecosystem. Java and Erlang ecosystems are not comparable.

Also, JVM is great. :)

Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by senand »

iagooar wrote: post #2

Sometimes I think Clojure should have been developed on top of the ErlangVM instead of the JVM. I think that the ErlangVM solves a lot better the problems that Clojure is trying to solve. Also, seems like targeting the ErlangVM is an achievable feat, since Elixir in its version 1.3 has proven to be extremely solid. Crazy idea: if I wanted to implement Clojure on top of the ErlangVM, where should I start?

I think I'd have a look at ClojureScript and/or Clojure CLR (https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr). The former is Clojure on top of Javascript, the latter Clojure on top of .Net.

It will not be easy, but I'm no expert. I'm also not sure why you'd really want that? Just to solve the long startup time?

Re: Lumo – A fast, standalone ClojureScript REPL that runs on Node.js and V8

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Post by darklajid »

provemewrong wrote: post #3

s/Clojure/ClojureScript

I was confused as well. The article compares the standard Clojure REPL with two ClojureScript REPLs (one being the one introduced in the article).

Interesting nevertheless, but still confusing.

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