The Next Five Years of ClojureScript

Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @02:10PM (#13201934)

...Can't the Clojure people just implement a native code compiler for mobile stuff? I mean, come on, CL/Scheme have been doing that for years, and they weren't constrained by the JVM, forcing a more optimized design.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by timbuckley on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:03PM (#13203252)

You are welcome to start working on it at any time.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by ethagnawl on Saturday December 17, 2016 @02:47PM (#13202117)

You can already write Android applications using Clojure[0] without too much trouble. There were a few rough edges when I last dabbled, but that was ~1.5 years ago and I imagine the ecosystem has only gotten better in the meantime.

[0] - http://clojure-android.info/

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by pjmlp on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:47AM (#13205451)

No, the eco-system hardly changed and it just increases the development effort by forcing developers to move out of the Android Studio workflow and being slower than pure Java.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by nikki93 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @03:38PM (#13202411)

You could try running ClojureScript over React Native. Nice thing about that is you use React paradigms for UI which IMO makes ClojureScript really shine, and you can use Figwheel etc. and it can be cross-platform.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:18PM (#13202688)

...Still not compiled to native. Which is what my question was about.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by jgalt212 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @04:37PM (#13202795)

Clojure was designed from the beginning to be a hosted language. It's its greatest strength (great Java and JS interop) and weakness (no native binaries).

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @05:23PM (#13203031)

Why can't we compile it to native? Lisp wasn't even designed to be run by computers, but that didn't stop Steve Russel.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by jgalt212 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @05:36PM (#13203111)

well, it's not just interop, but many core language functions are currently handed off to Java or JS. e.g. string operations and regex engine immediately come to mind.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by qwertyuiop924 on Saturday December 17, 2016 @05:51PM (#13203192)

...So hand them off to C.

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Re:The Next Five Years of ClojureScript by grzm on Saturday December 17, 2016 @06:01PM (#13203239)

There have been some that target C. I haven't looked into them other than searching for them.

- https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217898

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