Ja that is always like a little splinter in my brain as well. I hope I don't bring out the language-wars but I always wanted a Clojure-Like but with Golang. :)
I just love the go ecosystem and statistically compiled binary ! You shipping one binary ! :) No need to edit XML files and "tune java servers"
I keep staring projects like this, but I haven't found the right level to put a lisp in the Go stack.
I've done a runtime lisp, but it felt like programming a lisp isolated from everything that made Go, well, Go. I've done a simple lisp to generate Go AST to do codegen pre-1.18, but that's not a complete program.
I haven't found the place yet that feels quite like Clojure.
The x86 monoculture has shaken around a bit. But surprisingly it seems there has been friction even on the JVM side, partly because of Docker style nonportable containers had time to cement in the x86 monoculture period.
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Id actually love to hear what made you move on, if you have a few minutes to spare!
He wrote a blog post about it https://swlkr.com/posts/clojure-isnt-for-me/
TLDR: He hated the Java part of Clojure
Yeah that’s the long and short of it.
I spent a lot of time in jvm land though, a few years of nights and weekends, but I finally learned that it wasn’t for me.
I’m a C (or rust or llvm or what have you, wasm?) person, not a jvm person.
Tried GraalVM?
I’ve tried graal and native-image, both are awesome.
clojure still relies on the jvm though, for repl things.
sci and babashka were interesting, but at that point I had already moved on to janet
Ja that is always like a little splinter in my brain as well. I hope I don't bring out the language-wars but I always wanted a Clojure-Like but with Golang. :) I just love the go ecosystem and statistically compiled binary ! You shipping one binary ! :) No need to edit XML files and "tune java servers"
Again, this is just my preference. YMMYV
There are a few projects that try todo this like this one: https://github.com/mattn/golisp
But it seems abandoned.
I keep staring projects like this, but I haven't found the right level to put a lisp in the Go stack.
I've done a runtime lisp, but it felt like programming a lisp isolated from everything that made Go, well, Go. I've done a simple lisp to generate Go AST to do codegen pre-1.18, but that's not a complete program.
I haven't found the place yet that feels quite like Clojure.
there is joker https://github.com/candid82/joker but you may as well use the small clojure interpreter instead
The x86 monoculture has shaken around a bit. But surprisingly it seems there has been friction even on the JVM side, partly because of Docker style nonportable containers had time to cement in the x86 monoculture period.