I love Clojure, I really do, but it feels to me like what I once thought was its unstoppable march ground to a halt and then it kinda fell out of the nerd consciousness. I’m hopeful jank might be the shot in at arm Clojure needs to get going again.
Anecdotally, the JVM is exactly why I never gave Clojure a shot, despite being otherwise immensely interested.
I remember reading about Jank a while back on HN and got excited for it. Though I wonder if it’ll be too late to recapture my interest by the time it’s ready. Hopefully not.
There is also Janet. Not quite Clojure, but heavily inspired and a nice language. And it has a pretty small, mostly ANSI C implementation, easy and fast to compile anywhere I tried, and can be embedded in applications with no LLVM dependency.
