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Re:Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust by vaylian on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:11AM (#50412979)
One of the killer features of Clojure is it's seamless interop with the host platform. On the JVM you do something like

(Integer/parseInt my-variable); this calls Integer.parseInt(my_variable) in Java-land

I tried to find examples for how to call Rust code and the best I could find is:

https://github.com/csm/clojurust/blob/b847a29b46e2b6b3fbe624...

It looks like you need to do a lot of leg work to introduce Rust functions into Clojure namespaces. I guess there is no way around it and this is not a criticism of clj.rs. But it doesn't seem to be as seamless as on the JVM.

Re:Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust by rogerhey on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:02PM (#50417211)
spot on! we evaluated and chose regular Clojure for this reason. looking at jank now it seems very interesting for the interop