Thank you Icy, Jark has been a great tool! .. and have had the privelege of being on the bleeding edge of jark. Sunil.
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM, isaac praveen <icylis...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am pleased to announce the release of jark v0.4.0. > So why another Clojure tool ? > > Problem > > Startup time of the JVM is slow and therefore the command-line > applications running on it are slow as well. There are tools like > Nailgun that partly solve the problem. However, there isn't a tool > that is Clojure-aware, lightweight, secure and extensible. > > Solution > > * Implement a client/server system that uses a protocol such as nREPL > to communicate Clojure data structures over the wire > > * Build a client that is extremely lightweight and has minimum > runtime dependencies > > * Provide a server-side framework to interact with the JVM Runtime > > Jark is one such tool that helps run clojure programs on the JVM, > interactively and remotely using the nREPL protocol. > It has 2 components - a client written in OCaml and a server written > in Clojure/Java. The client is compiled to native code and is > extremely tiny (~200KB). > > Here are some features: http://icylisper.in/jark/features.html > See http://icylisper.in/jark/started.html to get started. > > Catch us on #jark on irc.freenode.net > > Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/clojure-jark > > Project page: http://icylisper.in/jark > > Caveats > ------- > > 1. The current jark version still uses nREPL 0.0.5. > However, We are currently working on jark 0.5.0 that uses newer > implementation of the protocol.That should be out soon. > > 2. lein plugin / lein2 integration has been moved to 0.5.0 > release. Once that plugin is ready, it should help run lein > interactively. > > 3. The Windows client binary has not been completely tested yet. > Hopefully we will have a test-suite in place for the client. > > 4. REPL does not work on windows yet. > > THANKS to: > * Martin DeMello, co-author of jark > * Lucas Stadler > * Abhijith Gopal > * Chas Emerick (for nREPL) > > Happy Hacking. Go ahead and give it a try! > > -- > isaac > > -- > 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 -- 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
