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Nice! I recently played around with a Lisp syntax for Go semantics: https://codeberg.org/veqq/Joe

As far as JVM-free Clojure-like, Janet is really nice. I've been using it in production for a while: https://janet-lang.org/ There's also Fennel if you want the Lua vm and libraries.

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Thanks! Joe looks good! As for Janet - never tried it myself but I always thought it's doing its own thing instead of trying to be Clojure.

While Janet pulls from a few inspirations, the syntax is pure Clojure. I always figured that it was trying fix up the bumpy parts in Fennel to enable a programming style that was more consistently Clojure-like and functional than could be done in Fennel, since Fennel ultimately has to use Lua's semantics because Fennel compiles to Lua.

It's a bit harder as Fennel can produce pure functions, whereas basically everything in Janet's standard library outputs mutable structures etc. Janet style tends towards (elegant) imperative programming.

For what types of work do you Janet in production?

I manage some client websites made with https://github.com/joy-framework/joy for example https://codeberg.org/veqq/janetdocs/

Some email stuff I don't know how to summarize well

Some data processing/aggregation servers

Some accounting stuff

I'm trying to build a declarative DSL https://lobste.rs/s/ylq7sd/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend#c... which I could port production Common Lisp/Prolog stuff to, but I probably won't for performance reasons.

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