Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp

Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by pron on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:45AM (#23165538)

Is it? I've looked hard and couldn't find any runtime that isn't more than five years behind OpenJDK(+Graal) in those areas, but maybe I missed something. I'm not saying it's perfect, but there's nothing out there that's better in those areas.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by pjmlp on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @07:24AM (#23165735)

Just to add to your point the only alternative that I would consider is .NET, and even then I do acknowledge that it is behind some JIT stuff, given that they have been favoring AOT / and single JIT scenarios.

Without Valhahla we will never get a Java variant of Unity, jMonkey Engine is a good as it gets and it has plenty of native code to overcome the areas where the JVM is found lacking.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by Scarbutt on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:11PM (#23170569)

You don't need Graal when you have Golang around the corner.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by flavio81 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @06:33PM (#23186389)

Golang's garbage collection system isn't just NOT state-of-the-art; it brings you back to the 1970s. A big pain point there.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by pron on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @03:51PM (#23171024)

We're not talking about the same thing. The innovative parts of Graal are not the AOT compiler.

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