Sure, anyone can go and write an emitter using these tools, but this doesn't solve the issues of a good type system, GC, JIT, etc. These tools make it easier to make any Clojure implementation self hosting, but those impls still need a good foundation to build on, and that's the hard part.
Timothy On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 11:18 AM, John Gabriele <jmg3...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday, January 4, 2014 1:12:12 PM UTC-5, Michael Gardner wrote: > >> >> > Hopefully the landscape for alternative Clojure hosts will improve with >> the completion of CinC [2]. >> >> [2] https://github.com/Bronsa/CinC > > > Looks like CinC is now: > > * https://github.com/clojure/tools.analyzer > * https://github.com/clojure/tools.analyzer.jvm > * https://github.com/clojure/tools.emitter.jvm > > This may be the topic for another thread, but could anyone please > summarize: Do these libs provide a path forward for a native compiled > Clojure? If so, what would that path be? (Ex. a tools.emitter.c? > tools.emitter.llvm?) > > -- > -- > 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that–lacking zero–they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs.” (Robert Firth) -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
