There are a couple projects that might be worth looking at although it seems both have not been updated in a few months.
ClojureC: https://github.com/schani/clojurec Clojure-Scheme: https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Nahuel Greco <ngr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check the clojure-py2 project, they plan to use LLVM to generate native > modules (as C compiled) for Python. When that objective is reached probably > you will have almost all the machinery to compile python-less native > binaries: > > http://lanyrd.com/2013/clojurewest/sccgmm/ > > > Saludos, > Nahuel Greco. > > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Marko Kocić <ma...@euptera.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Friday, January 25, 2013 6:12:07 AM UTC+1, Mikera wrote: >>> >>> A natively compiled Clojure would be very very interesting (perhaps >>> targeting LLVM?) >>> >>> However it would also be very hard to implement. Clojure depends on a >>> lot of features provided by the JVM (JIT compilation, interop with Java >>> libraries, garbage collection being the most significant ones). It would be >>> very hard to reimplement all of these from the ground up. The JVM is >>> already a very good host platform, why fix something that isn't broken? >>> >> >> What about native ClojuresScript? It doesn't have to implement everything >> Clojure have already, and many people could consider it good enough >> alternative to Clojure. I could personally live without runtime macros and >> eval if it would gain me small and performant native executable. >> >> >>> Arguably the effort would be better spend improving the JVM with extra >>> features that would help Clojure (e.g. TCO). >>> >>> On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 00:29:54 UTC+8, octopusgrabbus wrote: >>>> >>>> I use Clojure primarily as a very reliable tool to aid in data >>>> transformations, that is taking data in one application's database and >>>> transforming it into the format needed for another applications' database. >>>> >>>> So, my question is would a natively compiled Clojure make sense or turn >>>> the language into something that was not intended? In almost all instances >>>> I have not found a problem with Clojure's execution speed so my question is >>>> not about pro or anti Java. >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>> -- >> -- >> 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 >> >> >> > > -- > -- > 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 > > > -- -- 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
