There may be more relevant or up-to-date links, but do a Google search for
"clojure objective c", and you will see this has been discussed a little
bit in this group:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/clojure/6i9D5QOq7Cc
Also, one person started a couple of projects on Github, one written in
Haskell, then rewrote in Clojure, called objective-clojure:
https://github.com/jspahrsummers/objective-clojure
Andy
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Steven Degutis <sbdegu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Currently Clojure exists on the JVM, the CLR, and the JSVM.
>
> Why not put it on top of ObjC too?
>
> Then we could create stand-alone executables written in Clojure! Or it
> could be used as an embedded scripting language. The ObjC runtime and
> Foundation.framework are close enough to Java that it shouldn't be too
> hard to port.
>
> Rather than compiling to bytecode, it would be interpreted at runtime
> (like Python/Ruby). All dynamic class/method lookups and such would
> have to be done via <objc/runtime.h> and libffi.
>
> And there's the obvious downside that this would really only be
> beneficial for Mac OS X users (or people willing to put up with
> GNUStep). But there are plenty of us to make this worth it.
>
> What do you all think of this specific idea?
>
> I'm willing to work on such a project in my spare time, since I have a
> fair bit of knowledge about the ObjC runtime. But I have to admit I'm
> not a Clojure expert, so it would be helpful if more Clojure people
> were interested in helping out with such a project.
>
> Note: I've already looked into running ClojureScript via JS inside
> JSCocoa, it's not feasible for many reasons that are out of the scope
> of this topic; this post is specifically about porting Clojure to
> ObjC.
>
> -Steven
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