Apologies if this has been answered, did a quick search but found only pieces of info. Is it possible to run ClojureCLR on Mono yet? There was an issue with the BigDecimal dependency from J#?
/Markus On Dec 3, 5:21 am, dmiller <dmiller2...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1. CLR Interop: Interop is the focus of development at the moment. > Work is progressing on those things that the JVM implementation > doesn't worry about: ref/out params, assembly references, generics, > etc. I haven't spent much think time on attributes yet. Do you > have some specific use cases? That would be stimulating. > > 2. Performance goals: Clojure:Java::ClojureCLR:C#. Not there yet, > but no reason why this is not achievable. If you look at the IL > generated, ClojureCLR is almost identical to ClojureJVM. At this > point, I consider interop the bigger impediment. The game plan for > the near future: Interop, implementing the new deftype/reify/protocol > goodness, then maybe performance. deftype/&c affect IL generation, so > I'd like to get that done before coming back to look at the grungy > details of whether or not the CLR is inlining some little thing. > > 3. I'll let the folks who are better at Clojure programming style > answer this one. > > -David M > > On Dec 1, 11:41 pm, Mike K <mbk.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Clojurites! > > > I'm reading about Clojure and ClojureCLR with great interest. Since > > I'm a .net developer with little Java / JVM experience, I'm > > particularly interested in ClojureCLR. It seems like David M. and > > crew are doing a fantastic job with the CLR implementation! A few > > quick questions: > > > 1. Re. CLR Interop -- one thing I didn't see mentioned on the wiki > > is .net attributes (metadata). Will annotating methods, properties, > > etc with attributes be supported? > > > 2. What are the performance goals for ClojureCLR? I saw a video > > overview of Clojure by Rich in which he stated (perhaps with certain > > caveats that I don't recall) that essentially Clojure ran at speeds > > comparable to Java. Is having ClojureCLR run at speeds comparable to > > C# a realistic goal? What's the current performance story? > > > 3. I get the basic concept that native Clojure data structures are > > immutable and persistent. This is obviously an impedance mismatch > > when dealing with JVM or .net objects and APIs that are built around > > mutable state. Where can I more info regarding best practices in > > getting these two different animals to work well together within an > > app? > > > Thanks, > > Mike -- 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
