All, I just ran across Nim (previously Nimrod) which is a garbage collected systems programming language that looks like a suitable target for transpiling Clojure. See:
http://nim-lang.org/ My goal in looking at this is to have Clojure available in native code on real-time embedded systems which is what I work on in my day job. It seemed like targeting LLVM was the way forward with this goal but I have not heard of any progress in this area and it feels large and foreboding. Obviously targeting LLVM gives you a lot beyond just native code but it is limited in the processors it supports. We use Freescale PPC processors which neither LLVM nor most Javascript engines support, or if they do, they do so in a very limited way - e.g. only certain procs, etc. Having a compiler toolchain that resolves down to C, small executables and no/few dependencies is a huge advantage for using something like Nim. Is this of interest to anyone else? I'd like to get a proof of concept started. Advice on porting Clojure to other languages would be greatly appreciated :-) Alan -- 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/d/optout.
