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Looks like an interesting project. Curious what you have learned so far about the Clojure CLR ecosystem.

So far I think I've learned more about Java than Clojure CLR I think :) Once you get past the setup/build stage and understand how it works, working with .net libraries is pretty straight forward. There's a few tricks with loading assemblies and working with namespaces that I need to understand better and will be the focus of future posts.

We definitely need more documented examples of how to get going on the CLR and I think this is holding Clojure on the CLR back quite a bit. Hopefully, my posts will help get the ball rolling. Thanks for taking a look!

Since I've been paying attention to Clojure, the CLR version has always been there and been current and been unused. It may be that Microsoft has kept improving CLR languages fast enough that there has never been the pain that Java induced to cause programmers to switch.

I mean C# of 2008 was a lot different from C# of 2013. And F# was in there too. And a lot of the change was to .NET not the languages directly: LINC and RazorFish and Entity Framework Magic Unicorn Edition and each addressed programmer ergonomics.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the grand conclusion.

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