I am basically in love with Clojure. It fixes everything I ever found annoying about Lisp dialects, except for type safety (which I can live without for many scenarios).
But I feel like my love is unrequited: Clojure is a JVM language, and all my core libraries at .NET. The rest of this post discusses what options exist today for running Clojure on the CLR. Options: - IKVM.NET is a JVM implementation on top of .NET; it can therefore load clojure and its libraries - David Miller's ClojureCLR; Last Updated May 31st, 2009; http://github.com/dmiller/ClojureCLR/tree/master - Stefan Rusek's Xronos; Last Updated ~4 months ago; http://bitbucket.org/stefanrusek/xronos/wiki/Home David Miller's ClojureCLR is, as the name suggests, CLR-based. Stefan Rusek's Xronos is DLR-based. David last posted about the project on the Clojure Google Group on April 27th, 2009: http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=uoL2hhUAAABdPRgdaaO0krQLTeyusdD29h3i3SmjGmAJbX05nZ-8fQ Not positive, but I believe Stefan hasn't updated his wiki since December 07, 2008. What I know I don't know: To what extent has the notion of benchmarking and comparing the performance of Clojure implementations been discussed on this list? If this post happens to reach those outside this Google Group, I will also provide "where to start?" pointers for .NET developers. Getting Started Links: - A link to the best independent review of Clojure I've read: http://technomancy.us/121 - Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway is a great overview http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Clojure-Stuart-Halloway/dp/1934356336/ Cheers, Z-Bo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
