Re:Clj.rs – a Clojure dialect implemented in Rust
by caseym831 on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:10PM
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Hi! Author of the project here. I thought I could give some background on the project.
I started this when I was looking for a job in early 2026. Vibe coding was coming up at the time, and my initial work was partially hand-coded and partially given to Claude. The pivot between hand coding and full agent-based coding really took off during that time. I did get a job a few months into this year, and I've been hacking on this in the background when I can. The recent work has definitely been done by LLMs instead of me, but that's also because I have a ton of kids and vibing something on my phone is sometimes the only way I can do it. I do that with $20 per month subscriptions anyway (Claude & ChatGPT), and I'll gladly have them subsidize the compute work for my personal project, while it lasts.
Some of the internals might be a horror show, I'm willing to say. I have not looked that closely, though I'm trying to keep it headed in a reasonable direction. I'm working to understand my life now as a SW engineer as much as everyone else.
Why do it? I loved programming Clojure, and liked Rust when I was learning it early this year. I decided to just try it, and I've enjoyed getting it to a mostly-compatible position. Also Rich had made a post on LinkedIn about how token-efficient Clojure is, and thought a Clojure/Lisp could be a great language for AI assisted code generation. That said I don't know what it'll turn into, I'm just having fun with it.
I started this when I was looking for a job in early 2026. Vibe coding was coming up at the time, and my initial work was partially hand-coded and partially given to Claude. The pivot between hand coding and full agent-based coding really took off during that time. I did get a job a few months into this year, and I've been hacking on this in the background when I can. The recent work has definitely been done by LLMs instead of me, but that's also because I have a ton of kids and vibing something on my phone is sometimes the only way I can do it. I do that with $20 per month subscriptions anyway (Claude & ChatGPT), and I'll gladly have them subsidize the compute work for my personal project, while it lasts.
Some of the internals might be a horror show, I'm willing to say. I have not looked that closely, though I'm trying to keep it headed in a reasonable direction. I'm working to understand my life now as a SW engineer as much as everyone else.
Why do it? I loved programming Clojure, and liked Rust when I was learning it early this year. I decided to just try it, and I've enjoyed getting it to a mostly-compatible position. Also Rich had made a post on LinkedIn about how token-efficient Clojure is, and thought a Clojure/Lisp could be a great language for AI assisted code generation. That said I don't know what it'll turn into, I'm just having fun with it.