Re:LambdaNative
by nyc_cyn on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:26AM
(#11194638)
What's the TLDR of this? Is it scheme that transpiles to LLVM? If you want to code in lisp, why use this over clojure(script)?
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Re:LambdaNative
by mikelevins on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:29AM
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It's a set of tools and frameworks that make it convenient to use the Gambit Scheme compiler to develop apps for several platforms.
There are a variety of reasons that someone might choose it over Clojure or ClojureScript:
- they like Scheme better than Clojure
- they like the frameworks in LambdaNative better than the libraries available for Clojure
- they like the toolchain used with LambdaNative better than the toolchain around Clojure (both toolchains are kind of baroque compared to, say, Lispworks or ClozureCL)
- they want to build for a platform (such as iOS) where Gambit provides a convenient solution and Clojure doesn't
- they want to deliver apps to more platforms than Clojure currently supports
- they want to deliver compiled binaries that don't need a JVM or javascript VM to run