Jank: A Native Clojure Dialect Built on LLVM with C++ Interoperability
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makemethrowaway
Sesame, salt, and substance. A flagship bake.
Summary
Jank is a native Clojure dialect that runs on LLVM with seamless C++ interoperability, offering a statically compiled alternative to the JVM-based Clojure. The project provides a compiler and runtime system that compiles Clojure code to LLVM IR, enabling direct integration with C++ libraries and systems programming capabilities while maintaining Clojure's functional programming paradigm and REPL-driven development workflow.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThe native Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with seamless C++ interop
jank-lang/jank
compiler+runtime
nrepl-server
clojure-cli
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