Hi Stuart, I wasn't very clear.
Essentially, the problem I have boils down to having to maintain two separate code bases for my API - one in C# and one in Java. There is some overhead in maitaining two different code bases - for instance, whenever, I fix a bug in one or add a feature in one, I need to do the same in the other. I also need to write all my unit test cases in each language for both APIs, adding more work still. Given that both Clojure and ClojureCLR exists, it should be theoretically possible to write the logic of my API in the Clojure language and run them on both the JVM, or the CLR. As I would need to do networking with my API, all the runtime specific stuff, I could wrap with a common interface andthen call them from Clojure. In this case, I would only need to maintain one API logic, and two runtime specific abstraction wrappers. Unfortunately, as I am writing an API, and not my own application, I would still need to provide a Java or C# wrapper so that other people who don't use or know Clojure and can interface with my code - which again is more work. So the question is - would it make sense to specify that interface (ie. the Java and C# ones) in a language neutral specification with Clojure data structures, then from those data structures generate Java wrappers and C# wrappers around my clojure API logic code? There may not be such a solution in existence today - so essentially, the question is does such a solution make sense? Is that feasible or even possible or desirable? Or am I just being silly? Cheers, -John On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Stuart Sierra <the.stuart.sie...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Oct 30, 6:18 am, John Ky <newho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been wondering if there was a way to specify the Java and C# wrapper > > classes/interfaces to wrap Clojure code in Clojure, and then writing out > > them to a file so that they can ge compiled by their respective > compilers. > > I'm not sure I understand your question. There are two distinct > versions of Clojure: the original, which targets the JVM, and > ClojureCLR, which targets the CLR. Neither one generates Java or C# > source code; both generate bytecode for their respective runtimes. > > ClojureCLR is at http://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr > > -SS > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
