Joker: Clojure-like language on GoLang that's really fast

It mentions that its tiny, not FAST. It even says that you should use clojure if you want a fast implementation.

Performance is not the focus of the project. However startup time is probably a lot better than that of Clojure.

Under "Project Non-Goals":

> Performance. If you need it, use Clojure. Joker is a naive implementation of an interpreter that evaluates unoptimized AST directly. I may be interested in doing some basic optimizations but this is definitely not a priority.

For its intended purpose, small scripts, it probably is much faster than Clojure because of start-up time of the JVM.

Title is definitely misleading. I clicked through imagining a code-code translator that produces golang code from clojure and saw the word interpreter.

Joker was created by a team mate and I can't overstate just how useful it is; we do a lot of our DevOps work using it, it's a linter for our Clojure code, it's just handy.

It's optimized for startup time and its scope is limited; within that scope it is invaluable.