I just finished watching the Bay Area Clojure Meetup video, and Rich spent a few minutes talking about the possibility of Clojure in Clojure. The prospect of having Clojure self-hosted is incredibly cool, but it brought a few questions to mind. For one, Rich mentions that it would potentially open up additional target platforms for the language citing Objective C, Actionscript, and Javascript as potential host languages. As awesome as this sounds, wouldn't it first require a native implementation to be created for each language prior to Clojure in Clojure running on the platform? Perhaps there's some magic bootstrapping stuff that can be done to avoid a full port? I'm also wondering if Clojure would take a big performance hit as a result of being self-hosted? Either way, this seems like a really neat idea.
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