On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:10 AM, tmountain <tinymount...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just finished watching the Bay Area Clojure Meetup video, and Rich > spent a few minutes talking about the possibility of Clojure in > Clojure. The prospect of having Clojure self-hosted is incredibly > cool, but it brought a few questions to mind. For one, Rich mentions > that it would potentially open up additional target platforms for the > language citing Objective C, Actionscript, and Javascript as potential > host languages. As awesome as this sounds, wouldn't it first require a > native implementation to be created for each language prior to Clojure > in Clojure running on the platform? Perhaps there's some magic > bootstrapping stuff that can be done to avoid a full port? I'm also > wondering if Clojure would take a big performance hit as a result of > being self-hosted? Either way, this seems like a really neat idea. > The difficult thing would be preserving the inability of bad Clojure code to crash the process, and most especially, providing all of Swing, AWT, JDBC, JAXP, and all of the rest of the goodies from the Java class library. Being JVM-hosted has its advantages. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
