On my team, we tried using RoboVM to compile Clojure to iOS. It worked fine once it booted, but startup time was a concern. We didn't spend a lot of time optimizing it though. We also found the compile/boot cycle to be quite long (over 50s to see a change). My understanding (perhaps mistaken) is RoboVM must compile all code before boot, so live-loading code via a REPL won't work.
We switched to using Clojurescript/React Native and it's been a net positive for us so far, even though we had to rewrite some internal libraries for CLJS. We had a REPL briefly (Ambly, although we've recently had to drop support for it due to breaking changes from React Native upgrades) and our compile/boot cycle is about 20s. My coworker Chris Vermilion created these slides about our experience https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=forums&srcid=MTUyOTIzOTE0MjU1MDA0MDI3NjQBMTExMTI3MjYwMjc1OTc4MDg3MzQBXzVfV0tNdUZDQUFKATAuMQEBdjI Hope that helps, Ben On Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at 3:51:04 PM UTC-7, Roger Keays wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks for giving the world Clojure. It's already made my life better just > by applying the idioms to my Java code (e.g. > http://www.ninthavenue.com.au/java-with-no-design-patterns). > > I'm starting on a new project soon and would like to use Clojure, however > in my experiments so far performance seems to be a bit of a problem. Since > the project will target mobile devices performance is pretty important > (especially startup time). > > To be honest, even for the server I'm a little deterred by the stats I've > seen online of Clojure vs Java performance. I can always just write Java in > a functional style and embed beanshell for a REPL. > > So I guess it would be good to hear from the community how things have > worked out for them performance-wise, and especially on Android/iOS. > > Also, are there any known showstoppers compiling Clojure bytecode to iOS > using RoboVM? > > Thanks in advance, > > Roger > > > -- 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.
