Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go

Post by geokon » Wed, Sep 08, 2021, 3:02 PM UTC

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> You can in effect write Java in Clojure, but the language seems to be discouraging you. Things start to look ugly and hard to parse Clojure is really a functional language at heart, so when you need to go down to an imperative model for performance I agree that's when things start to feel not quite right, and you begin to fight the language a little, the lack of standard imperative loops become an obvious annoyance…

The cheatsheet is very handy! Thank you. I'd completely forgotten about it. I usually end up poking around Clojuredocs, but it's very unstructured and you're just hunting for a function that fits the bill. And yeah, your analysis of functional programming paradigms in Clojure mirrors how I think of it as well. I see that a lot, how the language is really pushing you to program functionally and almost intentionally ma…

Post by geokon » Tue, Sep 14, 2021, 10:50 AM UTC

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I just noticed you can actually leverage `into-array` at critical parts - if you just need a data collection for quick traversal.

If you're interested in high-performance Clojure, these articles are good: https://dragan.rocks/articles/18/Fluokitten-070-map-reduce-p... Fluokitten and Neanderthal are great for high performance numerics. Can't really get any faster than Neanderthal (which uses MKL and the GPU for compute). And fluokitten can make working with arrays a bit nicer, in that it'll look a bit more like working with sequences, though you…