Now there's Jank too, the first time a Lisp dialect has reached into native world since Clasp. The way it interops Clojure with the LLVM is unprecedented.
reply> the first time a Lisp dialect has reached into native world since Clasp.
replyWhat's that supposed to mean? Many (probably most if we only consider the non-toy ones) lisp implementations are "native" (compiling to native machine code, not interpreted).
You can directly call C++ as C++, not via a C ABI.
replyDon't forget Jolt! It's clojure built on top of Chez Scheme, which is super cool.
replyI'm also working on Jolt which uses Chez Scheme as the compiler. https://jolt-lang.github.io
replyI've already got enough of JVM compatibility to run Ring apps, and have some fun libraries like a Reagent style library on top of GTK https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-07-02-jolt.html
On a related note, there's a cross-platform Common Lisp package, "Bike" https://github.com/Lovesan/bike, that lets you use .Net assemblies from Common Lisp.
replyI've used it a tiny bit at work (on Windows) and at home (on Linux), and ran into one issue with "out" parameters, but otherwise it works really well.
That's just crazy! (in a good way) I've been in software since 1998 and it's like I've just uncovered a whole new world.
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