I wasn't aware of the Gloat project before this. It's a compiler that turns Clojure into native binaries by first transpiling to Glojure (which I'd also never heard of before this), which in turn targets Go. This is rather than using a GraalVM native image, which as I understand it is at this point the better-explored mechanism of doing that for JVM-based stuff (but has its own trade-offs).
Very cool!
jiehong 48 minutes ago [-]
I can see why people try this way: graalvm is limited outside the entreprise version, and it’s quite slow to compile with.
I think the aot compilation story on the JVM lacks fast tooling with good UX compared to go.
snitty 9 hours ago [-]
How is the demonym not Clojuristas?
arikrahman 8 hours ago [-]
The demonym I've most commonly seen is Clojurian.
user3939382 8 hours ago [-]
Clojurist makes it sound like adherents to a belief, which does imply identity though Clojurian more directly so. I’ve also found Clojurian most often. If only we had software that indexed the popularity of words…
arikrahman 4 hours ago [-]
In that case, Clojurians can be used for new initiates and Clojurists can be used for the most dogmatic Clojure supremacists, like myself.
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manytimesaway 9 hours ago [-]
Two of these projects are just AI. This is not very promising.
gargamel9 4 hours ago [-]
Neither of them is AI genetated software though. One is a fast Clojure LLM inference library, and the other a MCP server, both coded by humans, without AI.
stingraycharles 5 hours ago [-]
I know at least one of them and it has already existed for a decade or so, and is a legit framework, so this isn’t some hype based thing.
And Clojure is legitimately good at data processing.
The MCP server is a relatively simple project, don’t think that’s a bad idea.
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Very cool!
I think the aot compilation story on the JVM lacks fast tooling with good UX compared to go.
And Clojure is legitimately good at data processing.
The MCP server is a relatively simple project, don’t think that’s a bad idea.