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Cloture – Implementation of Clojure in Common Lisp

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Maybe the author is interested in the following proposal:

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/424

Anyhow - I do like the idea very much. It seems to me that it enables any solo developer to incorporate the entire jvm ecosystem. At a first glance the proposed syntax appears cumberstone, but I do not grasp everything. Do not use Clojure or CL, but Scheme.

This project has the best possible name for a port of Clojure.

From the FAQ:

>> Why?

> I would like to be able to use Clojure libraries from Common Lisp.

Huh. First thing that came to my mind would be to try just using clojure from within ABCL: https://www.cliki.net/ABCL

But that doesn't help if you don't want to target the JVM.

I did exactly this in the past. https://github.com/lsevero/abclj I'm already being able to run some CL software from clojure for example maxima on https://github.com/lsevero/clj-maxima.

Very neat projects! Now one can run CL in Clojure, and Clojure in CL. Must be an alien language after all.

I'd be interested in an Armed Bear Clojure Show HN post. I see there was one a couple years ago, but it didn't get any discussion, but it was probably prior to you actually running Maxima through Clojure.

Anyway, nicely done!

Well now I have an excuse to write some Clojure.

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