Jank development update – Moving to LLVM IR

Incredible work. A native Clojure would be a dream come true!

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

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

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

jank is Clojure. If it works on Clojure JVM and it works on ClojureScript, it should generally work on jank. Clojure doesn't have a language specification, but the community knows what a proper Clojure should feel like. Strong Clojure compatibility means anything outside of interop should just work. Naturally, interop on Clojure is very host-specific; Clojure JVM does one thing, ClojureScript does another, Clojure CLR does a third thing.

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

At this point, we'd be discussing the benefits of Clojure over CL and Guile, which ends up being a different discussion. jank is for Clojure devs who want a native host and good native interop. It's also for native devs who want to introduce interactive programming and FP into their systems.

can you use jank in .cljc files and portable code regions just work? platform specific interop guarded of course?