Re: Status of Clojure on .NET?

2009-06-12 Thread David Miller
I am familiar with Mono, but not with the Mono developer attempts to make it a happy place for FP. Thanks for the tip. The more the merrier. On Jun 11, 2:27 pm, John \Z-Bo\ Zabroski johnzabro...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 11, 12:11 am, David Miller dmiller2...@gmail.com wrote: Improving the

Re: Status of Clojure on .NET?

2009-06-11 Thread John Z-Bo Zabroski
On Jun 11, 12:11 am, David Miller dmiller2...@gmail.com wrote: Improving the performance of ClojureCLR is in the top two development goals.  (Porting to Mono is the other.) Are you familiar with Mono and the recent attempts from the Mono developers to make the VM more functional programming

Status of Clojure on .NET?

2009-06-10 Thread John Z-Bo Zabroski
I am basically in love with Clojure. It fixes everything I ever found annoying about Lisp dialects, except for type safety (which I can live without for many scenarios). But I feel like my love is unrequited: Clojure is a JVM language, and all my core libraries at .NET. The rest of this post

Re: Status of Clojure on .NET?

2009-06-10 Thread Cosmin Stejerean
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM, John Z-Bo Zabroski johnzabro...@gmail.com wrote: I am basically in love with Clojure. It fixes everything I ever found annoying about Lisp dialects, except for type safety (which I can live without for many scenarios). But I feel like my love is unrequited:

Re: Status of Clojure on .NET?

2009-06-10 Thread David Miller
Actually, ClojureCLR is also DLR-based, relying on Expression Trees V2, but not the hosting goodies. Thus, it might be runnable directly in .NET 4.0 without the DLR. For ClojureCLR: Performance of the core libraries is quite good. Startup time is quite good. Of compiled Clojure code, not so