Have you guys seen pixie yet? It seems like there's overlap for the requirements here.
https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Herwig Hochleitner <hhochleit...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think Nim is pretty cool (conceptionally, haven't used it yet) and full > of wonderous features: From the hands down awesome, like the a la carte GC, > its AST - based macros and optimizations and effect system to positively > weird stuff like its partial case-insensitivity (foo-bar == fooBar == > foo_bar == foobar == fOOBAr; wat?) or its method calls (obj.foo(bar) == > foo(obj, bar); I don't even). Overall it's appealing to me and certainly > seems easier than rust. And, of course, I'm interested in new > implementations of clojure. > > I'm optimistic about is the possibility to optimize the common case of > dynamic features by term-rewriting macros. > > However, I have some concerns about it: > - How will nim's static types interact with dynamic features; can enough > types for the compiler be generated by inference? > - Could it be that nim is too rich a base as a host language? For the > added indirection and complexity: What do we gain over transpiling to C and > generating an accurate type map for BoehmGC? > > Concerning porting Clojure: I think ClojureScript's experiment of putting > protocols/deftypes first in the bootstrapping chain has proven out, so I'd > start with figuring out how protocols are best represented (nim's > multimethods?). Since nim already has first-class functions, special care > has to be taken how they interact with the IFn protocol. > > What do you think? > > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
