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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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