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Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR

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188 points refset | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 06:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.392s | source
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masijo ◴[17 Oct 24 00:31 UTC] No.41865268[source]▶
Incredible work. A native Clojure would be a dream come true!

Wish jank the best of lucks. Hope I can contribute soon.

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systems ◴[17 Oct 24 13:53 UTC] No.41869688[source]▶
From their website, Jank is a dialect of clojure, and strongly compatible, I am not 100% sure what this means, but to me at least, it means it is not clojure and it is not native coljure

That being said, what would be the benefits of a native clojure, you have common-lips and guile if you want native

But again, Jank is not clojure .. just clojure-like, or so it seem

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1. refset ◴[17 Oct 24 14:28 UTC] No.41870009[source]▶
Clojure is language that was designed to be 'hosted' on many different underlying language runtimes, not just the JVM/Java. If Jank can implement clojure.core correctly (pass the tests!) and handle .cljc files then it counts as Clojure in the eyes of the community. See also ClojureScript, ClojureDart, ClojureCLR, SCI, Cherry, Electric, Rama etc.
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2. refset ◴[18 Oct 24 08:37 UTC] No.41877437[source]▶
** Clojure is _a_ language [...]

(apologies!)