Clojure Implemented in Pure Python

Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python by mattdeboard on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @09:12PM (#3650655)

Ok, what's the use case? What is the benefit to this versus regular ol' Python? In what situations might I write clj-py assumine identical performance to Cpython or pypy, instead of just Python?

I agree that this is a really cool project and I plan on reading through the source when I have time strictly as a learning exercise, but I cannot think of a use case.

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Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python by omaranto on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @11:20PM (#3650898)

Consider the case of a person that prefers programming in Clojure to programming in Python... :)

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Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python by mattdeboard on Thursday March 01, 2012 @07:08AM (#3651787)

I am such a person. That's why I program in Clojure -- yes, including a couple of Clojure repos at work (after gettin sign off from my boss). I also love Python. Best tool for the job and all that. Rewriting Clojure in Python is as absurd to me as rewriting JavaScript or Ruby in "pure Python". You get nothing meaningful except different syntax.

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Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python by halgari on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @09:36PM (#3650683)

I agree, if you're into Python, use python. However, I find things like macros, protocols, and multimethods drastically reduce the amount of coding that has to be done to accomplish a certain task. But I'm biased there ;-)

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Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python by mattdeboard on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @10:08PM (#3650746)

Well, don't get me wrong, I love Clojure and have been writing more Clj than Py the last few weeks.

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Re:Clojure Implemented in Pure Python by misfo on Thursday March 01, 2012 @10:55AM (#3652575)

If nothing else lispreader.py will be useful for reading Clojure data in Python. Think communicating with nREPL and reading the forms that come back

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