Jank Programming Language

Re:Jank Programming Language by lewdwig on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:33AM (#44518336)

I love Clojure, I really do, but it feels to me like what I once thought was its unstoppable march ground to a halt and then it kinda fell out of the nerd consciousness. I’m hopeful jank might be the shot in at arm Clojure needs to get going again.

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Re:Jank Programming Language by JonChesterfield on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:34AM (#44518702)

I blame the jvm for this. Happy to see an implementation on llvm.

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Re:Jank Programming Language by latexr on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:01AM (#44518891)

Anecdotally, the JVM is exactly why I never gave Clojure a shot, despite being otherwise immensely interested.

I remember reading about Jank a while back on HN and got excited for it. Though I wonder if it’ll be too late to recapture my interest by the time it’s ready. Hopefully not.

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Re:Jank Programming Language by 3036e4 on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:11AM (#44518950)

There is also Janet. Not quite Clojure, but heavily inspired and a nice language. And it has a pretty small, mostly ANSI C implementation, easy and fast to compile anywhere I tried, and can be embedded in applications with no LLVM dependency.

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