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• vaylian
  One of the killer features of Clojure is it's seamless interop with the host platform. On the JVM you do something like(Integer/parseInt my-variable); this calls Integer.parseInt(my_variable) in Java-landI tried to find examples for how to call Rust code and the best I could find is:https://github.com/csm/clojurust/blob/b847a29b46e2b6b3fbe624...It looks like you need to do a lot of leg work to introduce Rust functions into Clojure namespaces. I guess there is no way around it and this is not a criticism of clj.rs. But it doesn't seem to be as seamless as on the JVM.
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  JavierFlores09
  Has Clojure become the new base for Lisp-like languages? What does it got going for it that people seem to want its specific flavor of lisp? Just asking since I've also seen the Clojure talk about Jank[1] recently and it has gotten me interested.1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgApFhevrQ
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  tux
  Why not name it “Cloju.rs” instead? :-)
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  xnfra
  The only thing I know about Clojure is Walmart used it to rewrite their entire inventory system.
• jiehong
  Nice, but what are the non goals?Except maybe the compilation to native binary, this is closer to clojurescript than clojure I suppose ?How about a comparison with Jank?
• arikrahman
  Love to see more Clojure dialects taking fruit. Jank is very promising for C++ and now we have the Rust complement
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  andersmurphy
  Claude sure is busy these days.
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  sshine
  Cool.I'm already a big fan of the scheme-rs crate.I use it any time I need a dynamic scripting language.It allows for more flexible hot-reloading of parts of a program.I don't personally have any Clojure interop holes that need filling.But I can imagine a future where one moves partially away from the JVM if e.g. faster starts or leaner container images are desired.
• mono442
  It's vibecoded which makes it unlikely it has been actually tested well.
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  rfgplk
  I'm working on something similar.My guess is, within the next 3-5 years, most ALGOL descendant languages will become obsolete, and S-exp based Lisp dialects will take over. Objectively superior.Behold a native kernel, no inline asm or linker scripts, of any kind. The full compiler pipeline is controllable through the compiler (you can arbitrarily target, devise, or enable/disable various optimization passes, for instance you can enable LICM at will). Also has a hard 1:1 correspondence to C/C++/Rust/adding more languages soon. ;; GNU multiboot kernel (image (target x86-64) (origin 0x100000) (entry "boot32") (section ".multiboot" (align 4) (keep)) (section ".bss" (align 4096) (zero)) (stack "bootstrap" 16384) (stack "kernel" 32768) (assert (<= (address "kernel.end") 0x40000000) "early memory must fit the first GiB identity map")) (static header (Array u32 8) (declare (section ".multiboot") (used) (link-name "multiboot_header")) (arr (0x1badb002 0x10003 0xe4514ffb (link u32 (address "multiboot_header")) (link u32 (origin)) (link u32 (+ (origin) (image-size))) (link u32 (+ (origin) (image-size))) (link u32 (address "boot32"))))) (static gdt (Array u64 3) (declare (aligned 8) (link-name "boot_gdt")) (arr (0 0x00af9a000000ffff 0x00cf92000000ffff))) (static pml4 (Array u64 512) (declare (mutable) (aligned 4096) (link-name "boot_pml4"))) (static pdpt (Array u64 512) (declare (mutable) (aligned 4096) (link-name "boot_pdpt"))) (static pages (Array u64 512) (declare (mutable) (aligned 4096) (link-name "boot_pages"))) (fn prepare-paging () (declare (mode protected32) (noinline)) (dotimes (i 512) (at pml4 i (->u64 0)) (at pdpt i (->u64 0)) (at pages i (| (* (->u64 i) 0x200000) 0x83))) (at pml4 0 (| (link u64 (address "boot_pdpt")) 3)) (at pdpt 0 (| (link u64 (address "boot_pages")) 3)) (unsafe (x86::write-cr 'cr3 (link u64 (address "boot_pml4"))) (x86::write-cr 'cr4 (| (x86::read-cr 'cr4) 32)) (x86::write-msr 0xc0000080 (| (x86::read-msr 0xc0000080) 256)) (x86::load-gdt (link VirtAddr (address "boot_gdt")) 23))) (fn show-greeting () (unsafe (auto video (i->ptr (Volatile u16) 0xb8000)) (dotimes (i 2000) (at* video i (+ 0x5725 (->u16 i)))) (auto greeting ":d") (dotimes (i (size greeting)) (auto byte (->u8 (at greeting i))) (at* video i (| 0x0f00 (->u16 byte))) (x86::out8 0xe9 byte)) (x86::out8 0xe9 10))) (boot-entry boot32 (mode protected32) (handoff (magic eax u32) (information ebx PhysAddr)) (with-stack "bootstrap" (prepare-paging) (unsafe (x86::enter-long-mode 'kernel64 8 magic information (link u64 0x123456789abcdef0))))) (boot-entry kernel64 (mode long64) (handoff (magic rdi u32) (information rsi PhysAddr) (cookie r12 u64)) (with-stack "kernel" (unsafe (x86::write-segment 'ds 16) (x86::write-segment 'es 16) (x86::write-segment 'ss 16) (auto valid (and (= magic (->u32 0x2badb002)) (> (address-bits information) 0) (= cookie (->u64 0x123456789abcdef0)) (= (& (x86::read-cr 'cr0) 0x80000001) 0x80000001) (= (& (x86::read-msr 0xc0000080) 0x500) 0x500))) (if valid (show-greeting) (progn (x86::out8 0xe9 70) (x86::out8 0xe9 10))))))
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  lightningspirit
  I expect this to take over within the next couple of years. Great job!