Yea, for me, being on JVM is one of clojure's biggest selling point. I don't know that I would've learn and use clojure were it not on the JVM.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:24 PM, John Harrop<jharrop...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, tmountain <tinymount...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > The difficult thing would be preserving the inability of bad Clojure code to > crash the process, and most especially, providing all of Swing, AWT, JDBC, > JAXP, and all of the rest of the goodies from the Java class library. Being > JVM-hosted has its advantages. > > > -- Omnem crede diem tibi diluxisse supremum. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
