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The learning experience for Clojure is superb. Coming from C/Python languages, it really put things in perspective to learn to think more in terms of composing primitives than wrangling syntax.

OT: Does anyone know of other projects in the spirit of Pixie? To be more specific I'm looking for existing work on a clojure->rust project, would contribute or start one if none exist. Sorry for the offtopic!

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I'm working on Clojure-looking lisp with a borrow checker and static analysis in the vein of Rust. It's especially tailored for games since most lisps don't account for that use case (GC, dynamic types). Here's a link, let me know if you have any questions: https://github.com/eriksvedang/Carp

This looks nice and feels right in terms of syntax. I'm not sure I see the value of exposing the borrow checker to the user however; couldn't it be used implicitly while handling the s-expr to c compilation? In any case I'd love to talk more about it, can I reach out via the github project?

Absolutely! We have a gitter chat that would be a perfect place for that kind of discussion https://gitter.im/eriksvedang/Carp

Just to be clear, you consider Pixie to be Clojure -> Python, and looking for something similar but s/Python/Rust, right?

Yes pretty much!

Speaking of python, there's also hylang: use python functions with lisp s-expr syntax. It's very cool

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